The Dream Team

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Gather around boys and ghouls.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
For another tale of modern horror.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Our story begins in Evanston, Illinois, where a young soccer
mom has just sat down with a cup of coffee
to read her email. This was the first step of
her descent into a.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Caps of her soul.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
All right, let me just log in, use her name, password,
and enter what's this For the safety and security of
your account, we now require two step verification. Oh well, okay,
that's probably a good thing. Enter my phone number and
the code to the website and here we go. There

(01:06):
was a problem processing your verification. Please find the items
in the boxes below. Oh god, anything but this. I
hate these things. Okay. Find the bicycle. Okay, that one,
that one, that one, and that one. What I missed one?
But the one on the bottom left is a motorcycle,

(01:29):
isn't it? Oh God, just let me start over. Okay.
Find the traffic light. Well do I click on this
one with just a small portion of it? Is it
just the lights or the whole fixture?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
All?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Okay? There, wait another one. Find the bus. There are
no buses. There's one picture with a bunch of traffic.
I guess there would have to be a bus. In
there somewhere. Okay, are you freaking kidding me? Find the motorcycle?
That's a freaking one.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Three.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Okay, now what, let's try something else. Your great aunt's
maid name. I don't even have a great aunt, and
even if I did, how would they know? I'm not
sure i'd want to know how they would know. I'll
click on I don't have that information thung print, but
I don't even have a touch screen on my computer.

(02:25):
What are these highly educated morons thinking? Screw it, I'll
call their customer service line.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Thank you for calling United American Internet Services. For English,
press one for help with your modem Press one for
an outage, Press two for billing, Press three for help
with your modem Press four. If it is something else,
press five. Geez in a few words, tell us what
you are calling about.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I am just trying to get to my stupid email.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I heard I want to pay my bill? Is that correct? Nah?
I'm sorry, Let's try again.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Representative Representative, Representative, representative, let me.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Get you to a representative one moment. Please, due to COVID,
we are experiencing high call volumes.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
What does COVID have to do with my email?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Your expected wait time is two hours and thirty two minutes. Ah,
we can save your place in line and call you
back when it's your turn to request a callback. Press one,
thank you, and goodbye.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
What What the hell? I pressed one? I hate my life?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, it looks like our soccer mom is going to
be stuck in a vortexa verification.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Tune in next time for another tale of.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
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(04:36):
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good evening, everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hell, Welcome to.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Another fabulous Sunday here a counter culture wise land. We
are so happy that you here with us on this
fantabulous November day.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Has it just been wonderful?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
It has been lovely and now in our thirsty, thirsty
area we are expecting rain. So God is good and
all is right in the world.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I am your hostess with the most is miss Millennio
or missus Mellennio, or hey you or your ginger or
you know whatever you're in the mood for. And to
my right is my right hand man. He also happens
to be my husband, my very best friend, my co host,
and my sweet baboo, mister James Mona.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Sometimes I'm all of the above at the same time.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, sometimes every now and then. And like we were
talking about in Bible study today, we have to be
very careful with how we use our words. For instance,
I will never say, Jim, you are a jerk. I
will say, Jim, you are at teemed like a so
not right now though not right now. We're doing good.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
So we're just a couple of minutes in a.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Couple of minutes in so far, so good. So we
thought we'd bring back an oldie but a goody with
our tales of modern terror.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
We need to do I need to do some more
of those.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Those are fun.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Besides, I love doing Vincent Price's voice, Too much Money.
I'm in love with Vincent Price. I always have this.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
He's always trying to write in Sean Connery or Vincent Bryce.
It's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Well anyway, No, no, I'm not doing.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
He's working on his Trump though, as he will have to,
because we're gonna have fun.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
We have four years.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
And you know, I was thinking about this before the show. Yeah,
America literally dodged a bullet.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
It means we yeah, things things were getting pretty scary
at for a bit. If we do have any liberal listeners,
which I know for a fact we do not, But
if somebody accidentally stumbles.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Upon this podcast tuning in.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Thanks for tuning in. And also don't worry because if
there's one thing that conservatives and I'm not a Republican,
but I lean conservative. If there's one thing we will
not tolerate, it's a dictator. Just remember, boo, we like
our guns.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
There's a reason that it's not to defend ourselves against criminals, no,
defend ourselves.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Against our own government. So if he does try to
be a dictator, which he won't, it's all a bunch
of that was it was a joke in passing, and
they bit through a big hissy fit about it and
then ran with it. But they've been lying to you
for the last decade. Don't worry. We won't let it
happen to you because we wouldn't tolerate it. We like
the constitution anyways, so let that be a comfort in

(08:56):
these times.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Indeed.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
But speaking of these I mean, wow, wow, just wow,
just literally have the dream team. But before before you
do anything, yes, before we go further, Yes, drop everything.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I was wearing my helmet this time.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I gave you time to strap it
in this time. He's learning, he's learning now eventually, someday.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I got it. I got it from a good will store,
which explains whether there's a Dallas Cowboys logo on it.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh oh that hurt my little heart. That hurt my
heart about their boys. Anyway, Oh, you know, Veteran's Day
was lovely.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Veterans Day was marvelous. We I got to relax. I
mean I got I did some chores around the house
and all that, but we we really just mostly relaxed
the whole day. And I went to a buffet for
dinner and it was free for me because I was
a veteran. That made me feel really good.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
What was really fun is there was a line but
moved really fast, and while we were waiting in line,
they did that little thing where they snake you around,
so you'd meet somebody and start a conversation and then
they move up and then you'd meet again.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
It was it was fun. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
And there were a lot of elderly black veterans.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Like Vietnam era vets.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, a couple of them, yeah, but black female, all
different sorts. And I was just dressed to the nine
and we just had a jolly good time in line.
It was like what is it the the w what's
the bench that he set out? Where? Not quite that bad,

(10:42):
but it was very very crab. It was very crowded,
but so much fun and just the camaraderie and seeing
all these people that I think there was only like
three people there, me and two other women who weren't
wearing the ice as Yeah, and it was lovely seeing

(11:02):
our veterans honored in such a way and meat.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's it seems like it's no big deal because one
day or the year, but this is the bit. This
is a busy time for all retailers and every day
they depend on profits. And I know they made a
little bit of money because people like my wife who
accompanied me. It's not like other restaurants like I'm just

(11:27):
gonna throw out a few that were doing the same
thing Chili's or Applebee's, where typically you're not going to
eat by yourself, you bring people with you, But at
a buffet you don't really feel such an impulse that
you have to have somebody.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
There were a few single folks doing their thing and
they and they serve.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
The food was above average, really tasty. Steak is really good,
and so yeah, they weren't they weren't just handing out
mac and cheese and donuts. It was would have been happy.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
That made me very happy, just as happy. It was
lovely and it was nice meeting new people and being
able to honor folks that are been around the block
a few times and it's just meeting old vets that
you weren't you wouldn't expect to meet right in the area.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
And the mood there was wonderful, a great service was
they as crowded. As crowded as it was. They I'm
giving them credit for doing as well as they were
on because I mean, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, so the stereotypical buffet. We won't name the name
because they're not a sponsor, but you probably have an idea.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, it's the one that has locations all over America.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
And thank you everybody who has served our nation. If
you're tuning in today, thank you for your service. Absolutely
absolutely speaking of service, building a dream team and it
is driving the left in sane. It's so fun to watch.

(13:09):
I'm having a blast with this. So let's talk a
little bit about this dream team.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
That we've got shot and he I think Trump learned
a very very important lesson from his last administration and
that he relied on other people to assist him with
making choices for his cabinet.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
And I don't think he realized how deep the swamp led,
and he just I think he went in there assuming that, oh,
if they're on the Republican side, they'll be on my side.
And they weren't.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
No, and he's got to fire all the.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Way down to the gardener. He's going to just have to.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah. And the thing is, and I think it's important
to point out that a lot of liberals, left leftists
and rhinos are hopping mad this time because and there's saying, well,
he just hired a bunch of Trump loyalists, which I say, excellent.
That's a good idea because the last time it didn't

(14:06):
have Trump loyalists and the thing went stupid. And this
way it's a.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
United front and innovative and different ideas. I think it's
going to be so much fun. And the great thing
about it is Trump has no qualms with firing people.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
So no, he did it all the time on a
TV show used to be on you might remember.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
You know, Biden hasn't fired a single person in the
entire time he's been in office.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
It doesn't surprise me. So firstly, this article from USA
Today that we're using just as a as a reference.
They talk about Robert F. Kennedy, Junior for Health and
Human Services, that would indirectly make him my boss. I
work for the I work for the State HHS. However,

(14:48):
they're interlinked. Okay, okay, so he's gonna kind of sort
of be my boss, and I'm thrilled. Yes, he has
a few off the wall ideas, and people are screaming
that he's an anti vaccin I'm gonna make this clear
one more time, one last time, and I'm gonna let
the matter drop. I was in the Marine Corps, as
our regular listeners know, and when you go to boot camp,

(15:10):
they turn you into a human pin cushion. They shot
me full of everything. I don't have any idea what
all they did. One of them was the plague shot,
which made.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
My arm want to fall off and gave you the blag.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
And so when I say I was I did not
take the so called COVID nineteen vaccine, it is because
I had what I believed were to be legitimate concerns
about its effect on me, being a heart patient and
a diabetic. I'm in good shape now, I'm in decent health.

(15:45):
Now I'm gonna get better. I'm you know, twenty twenty
five is coming up, and I don't call them resolutions anymore.
But I've but losing weight is definitely in the plans,
and exercising more frequently. Because we went to the exercising yesterday,
went out in the woods for about half an hour.
We were dying, and I'm just I'm not doing this again,
not without just make it a regular thing. So he's

(16:07):
in charge, are going to be and he is big
time against big pharmas, so of course the news networks
which are sponsored by Advisor and Moderna and all the
other big wigs. Eli Lilly. Now I'm going to take
another side step and say, these guys have provided very

(16:31):
valuable medications that have prolonged and saved people's lives. That's
not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about. Oh I
see these studies that say there may be some side
effects that might be very detrimental or deadly, but boy,
we make a lot of money off of it. So
screw them.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
That those side effects and the side.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Effects of that, well that there's that too, that too.
So FDA was warm public health about to end. Kennedy
wrote on X in late October. If you work for
the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I
have two messages for you. One, preserve your records, to
pack your bags.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know, they're already burning the.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well, they're already like freaking out in some some FDA
officials are are drafting their resignation. I say, good, good
for you. So that's just one of them. Let's look
at some of the others.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
For the record. Where they got the idea that he's quoting,
quoting fingers anti vacs is that he called out the
fact that the mRNA recoders were not tested. A lot
of vaccines are not tested. They don't even meet the
basic FDA standards.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
They're illegal in some countries.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, exactly. He is not a science denier, and anybody
who's intellectually lazy enough to buy into that rhetoric, examine
your brain, honey, because he is actually not just pro science,
but he wants more science. He wants more studies. So

(18:09):
the whole you know, vax denial or whatever, that's absolute bs,
it's ridiculous, and stop believing what the boob tube tells you.
These people have been sued almost out of existence and
now half of them are having to sell their entire networks.
Chuck will be talking about that later in the weeks.
Make sure you tune into the holy crap this is

(18:31):
actually happening segment on our sister channel.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
But we'll also I had to feed coffee and try
to wake him up. He was he has.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh yeah, he's gotten much more relaxed. So I told him,
you don't have to you don't have to pound down
the booze as much.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay, now, yeah, he actually a little bit. I haven't
quite got him in a yet bit.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
And well, I don't know if he's been.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Talking about quitting smoking. We'll see, we'll see. Because he's
not allowed in my office right right. I let him.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I let him sit in mind because oh guys, we
shoot the breeze, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
You just breeze, all right, all right now. But no,
he's been in much better spirits. But I don't think
he's out of a job.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I don't. I don't think. I think we're all in
because we're on the winning side this time. We're in
good spirits. I'm I'm thinking we're going to move away
from talking so much politics because sometimes it's a turnoff
for me. I don't like spending an hour doing this tonight.
I do tonight. I'm loving this.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, yeah, and we will still have fun, but.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Of course always have fun.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Our main focus is news. Are the weird, wonderful and wicked, absolutely,
and there is plenty of wicked out there to report on,
but we also report on weird and wonderful. Well, this
is in the wonderful.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
In our humblest of opinions. Let's review some of his house.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
So I'm gonna you know, I don't agree with I'd
say about sixty eight percent of what JFK stands for.
And much like Trump said, stay away from the oil,
do what you're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
This is strictly his RFK, not JFK RFK do I
keep saying JFK.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'm sorry, I.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Know JFK can't help right now. He's busy.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well he got Trump almost got JFK. So and folks
do be diligent. Do be diligent because they are still
going to try. That wasn't the last attime.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
I My advice to Donald, if I could talk to him,
would be lay just laylo for the next couple of months,
and and get your own security in addition to the
Secret Service, because some of them are out to get
you too.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
For the record, they do know whose cocaine that was
There is DNA on that baggie. They know, darn well
whose it was?

Speaker 2 (20:49):
It was? Joe's quiet, quiet, all right, Susie Wiles. I
don't know her, but she's chosen for chief of staff.
Let's say this again one more time, Susie. Oh yeah,
a girl, a woman, a vagina possessor for Jim.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Really, for us, that's not that big of a deal
for us. It's more like, can she do the job?
Sixty seven? That's my concerns old I mean, no offense,
but so why why? Why is she a good pick?
Do you think? Well?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Because she was an advisor to his campaign and she
had helped him in the past to help him win.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Is she short?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah? Okay, he's got a brain her head for sure.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
From the pictures of her, she looked pretty spry. I
would have never guessed she was sixty seven. Yeah, all right,
So we gotta gotta a loyalist in there.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
But I'm glad, like I said, a loyalist then you
have a unified vision and if you mess up, you
know that if something goes wrong, well, that's that's something
that Trump would have to take responsibility for us. Yeah,
because he's voting he's bringing people in who are unified
with him in most cases. I'm I mean, obviously he's

(22:01):
joked about RFK is saying keep away from the oil
because you know Rfk's what he's going to.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Do is put them in charge of the things that
they're good at. You're not just going to throw a
booty juice at at transportation when he doesn't know dudal
Lee Squat. So many of the people that were appointed
by the Biden administration, they were just payback favors. These
are folks that are like, wait, what you want me
to do? What you know it's not just payback favors, right,
and some of them are flat out volunteers like Elon

(22:29):
and then Ramaswami. All right, So Mike Walls not to
be confused Walls, which really did confuse me. I'll be honest,
I'm that dumb fifty so not too old, has been
chosen for National Security Advisor. He is a Florida congressman.
So we got us a Florida man. Oh that's right,
he's gonna have to step down now, is he the

(22:50):
one who knows the other one that already stepped down? Okay,
So that means do they then appoint. If he does
get the the appointment and it's ratified and all that,
do they then have to appoint a new congressman to
take his place.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
There would be my understanding is, and my understanding is
very limited, but they would have to have a congressman.
They'd have to have a special election, I think too.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Is it like a vice congressman?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I don't think that's how it works.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
And then they'd have to have like another vote, right.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, they'd have another vote, would it be?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Why why am I blanking on his name the governor
of Florida?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
No, because he's the governor of Florida. Wh would he
give that up to be a senator?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
That would That's what I'm saying that what's his name?
I can't think of his name? Santas? So would DeSantis
be the one that would appoint the new congressman?

Speaker 2 (23:39):
I don't live in Florida. I don't know. I'm not
coppying out.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Honestly, think Okay, yeah, well I don't know. Apologies.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
We're willfully, hopefully.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Ignorant about some things, but not about this. Only Moly
my favorite of all of them, and that's including you.
I don't care this guy is the best guy. This
guy is going to be replaced, sing Kamala Harris as
the borders are.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Well, she she never was. This is not the borders
are you're looking for? Never happened.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
This gentleman Tom Holman has been tapped his border deisare
to oversee border control again. He previously acted as Trump's
head of Ice and will join his new administration. Homan
will report to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Now, I
want to take just a few moments and let's talk
about some of the things he's already said that have
uh illegals trembling in their boots and the left side

(24:36):
of our country having face plants, meltdown's hair falling out,
teeth growing out, everything going stupid. She's not holding back.
He's saying, pack your stuff, You're you're getting out, you're leaving.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
You're like, how are we going to deport them?

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Separate the family, and.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Don't separate the family together.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, And for those time, this isn't magic dirt just
because you plunk your kid here. I mean, there literally
are people that that will like hold it in until
they're not on this side of the magic dirt and
then plunk their kid in and now them and every
auntie and uncle and Nanu and Ninu and what do
they call me? Ma? And everything else they can find.
And it's amazing how when they're talking about this they

(25:23):
all developed these accents. It cracks my cracks my butt up.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Well, like the head anchor babies, you have a choice,
leave the anchor baby here or take it home with you.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Sorry, I'm And I know there are people who are
gonna think I'm racist for saying this, but I will
I will rebut that by saying, the Hispanic vote this
time went overwhelmingly decisively for Donald Trump. And this is
the same races that I mean. Obviously, most people immigrating

(26:02):
illegally are from South America, not rate Central America.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Not lately you've got a buttload of Chinese.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
No, no, it's okay, you're you're not wrong, You're not wrong,
but that but the perception, just like myself, what I
just said, all the Hispanics and and you just said, yeah,
there's there's Asians. It's mostly Asians. Now, the point is
a lot of the groups you would not think would
have voted for Trump did because they're just as sick

(26:35):
of the border crisis as we are.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, yeah, you're a line jumper. You know, if you
come here, it's unbelievably hard to do it the legal way,
and it shouldn't be that difficult. And I can see why,
you know, we have the fence jumpers.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
The thing is, these people are being trafficked, these people,
women are raped. I think it's well over six children
are he lost eighty thousand children just poof, don't.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Know where they are, children don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Where they are. Okay, this is it is It is
not kind, It is not you know, humane. It is
not the right thing to do to have these people
make that terrible journey. Give you know, give some coyote
every last time. They have have their daughters raped, murdered,
left who knows where, and it's horrible. And anybody who

(27:36):
thinks that they're being kind or they're on the right
side of history to encourage that are twisted. You're twisted.
Why don't we do what Canada said she was going
to do and see if we can't figure out how
to help them fix their country. You know, if we're
supposed to be getting the best and the brightest from
all over the world and we're getting hundreds of millions

(27:59):
of people from you know, certain countries. Are we just
draining those countries of everybody who can actually make those
countries better.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
That's kind of selfish, Yeah, I think, I think.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
But the fact of the matter is we're not We're
not getting the best in the brightest.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
We're getting some mixed in with the with the rest.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
But and how many terrorists known terrorists have have.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Have have gang members?

Speaker 3 (28:23):
The gang members are prisons. I forget what the exact
statistic is, but most of our prisons are illegal m hm,
illegal aliens. And yes, a person can be illegal. Not
I'm not even playing with the semantics anymore. And neither
is this guy.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I know he calls Spade, and he's just he's not
he doesn't he isn't showing anything.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
And it has nothing to do with racism. If you're
from Denmark and you squirted out a kid here, that
does not make you an American, right, And I don't
want a bunch of I I love immigrants. I have
plenty of friends. One of my DearS Mexican. We've been
talking about this a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
It's nice. Yeah, that's true. A music.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
And that's not the issue. And I'm not doing the
oh I have a black friend nonsense. What I'm saying
is when you talk to them, when you actually stop
white nighting and stop stop being the great white protector
and actually listen to the people that you think you're saving.
You're wrong, You're wrong. But you know, everybody's so righteous
that that they're not paying attention was actually happening. They're

(29:29):
not listening to the actual people that they say they
want to help. Little Randy. Sorry, no, that's fine. We're good.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
We love your rant don't stop ranting. You stop ranting,
we stop having counterculture.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
That is true, all right, Elis Stephanick, he's young, relatively,
you an ambassador, and she.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Hous Republican chair.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
We really have to stan in.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, it's still a thing we we do want. I mean,
it is kind of it has devolved into a bit
of a joke, but we still need to represent ourselves
there just because that's where people go to pay attention.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Worn't for the UN. There would not be a war
between Russian.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
And Ukraine, that's true. So we have Dan Scaveno.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Wait you skipped over Stephen Miller. Oh sorry, some people
call him the space cowboy. So Deputy Chief of staff policy. Wow,
he's young, thirty nine, so he.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Was a speech writer, key advisory roll outside of the cabinet.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Right, which one of these has a linked Okay.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Dan Scavino a chosen as Assistant the President and Deputy
chief of Staff.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
About down time. Gen X finally finally finally gets the baton.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
From the I mean, this is this, This marks the change.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Everybody had a death grip on everything.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Everybody in this is is a gen X.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Virtually everybody beginning to think that our generation didn't even exist.
The way it's they've been acting.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
James Blair has been no relation. Has been picked as
a system to the President. Deputy chief of Staff for Legislative,
Political and Public Affairs is not a cabinet position. Taylor Budowitch,
Assistant to the President, Deputy chief of Staff for Communications
and Personnel, Led Zeppelin. I'm sorry, Lee Zelden. It's still

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a chosen to lead the e p A. He was
a former officer in the United States Army Reserve. It's
not a cabinet role, but it is cabinet level, so
it's important, but it's not directly in the cabinet. Homeland
Security is going to be run by Christy Nome.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
I'm not sure how I feel about that one. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
She is a loyalist to him for sure.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Okay, now they all they can do is focus on
the puppy shooting. So yeah, and for it wasn't a puppy, folks,
It was not a puppy. Okay, apparently it was a
vicious dog. But the way it was written, I don't know. Okay,
heg Seth loving this guy. Loving this guy. I don't
watch Fox News. I've never heard of him before, but

(32:16):
I'm looking at his history. Dude is badass.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
He is.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I think he's a fantasy.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Plastic pastic secretary.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, and just because you got a job on you know,
Fox and Friends on a week as a weekend host
of whatever. I mean, look at how many people are there. Now,
you know you have a little miss circle back. Is
she officially you know, not allowed to take a spot
because she is on TV? Now, I mean it's being ridiculous,

(32:50):
But you look at his actual record. This guy, I
think he's a great pick. He's young, he's intelligent, he
has the experience. I think, Yeah, I don't know who's
advising Trump, but he has got some really good advice.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
He's got some five star people.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, I mean absolute, I think railing about. I mean
he had like Roger Stone and Giuliani last time, and
I think even they didn't know. And I think now
he's got some top notch advisors and they're thinking out
of the box. I think Ramaswami has a lot to
do with it. A lot.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
He was he he was my favorite, he was my pick.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be honest. I didn't want to vote
for Trump again, but but.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
I'm now I'm glad I did because this this cabinet
is going to shake things up in a good way.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Also, his pick for vice president. I'd never heard of.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
The guy before, right particular, and.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
He was an anti Trumper, right. He didn't like Trump either,
but he grew up. And I think part of it
is he got black pilled, well, not black pill, he
got red pilled. Like a lot of us when you
found out, wait, the find people hoax is actually a hoax.
What else have they been lying to us about?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (34:04):
You know, I mean there's the obvious things like Jesse
Smollett and all that, But then you look at how
they're still treating jan six, you know, and and then
you just go on down the list of hoax after
hoax after hoax after hoax. He's like, Okay, well, maybe
how I understand Trump. I mean, you've talked to people
who like, really have a visceral reaction, like they hate
the man, like they literally waste their time and their

(34:27):
energy hating.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, and I'm talking relatives of mine. I'm talking dear friends.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
And you ask them why, and every answer they give
you isn't true, right, It's not true. He's not a Nazi,
he's not a dictator, he's not a rapist. He's not
even a convicted fellow. I know that's their favorite thing
to say, but no, there's been no sentencing that it's
probably going to get thrown out because it was bogus
to begin with. And by the way, those of you,
sonny I'm talking to you, who likes saying can make it.

(34:58):
Fany can make it, Fani can make a not a
convicted fella. And b tell me what the crime was.
Nobody can tell me what the crime was, you know why,
because there wasn't one. There wasn't a crime. And no,
he is not a convicted rapist. He was not convicted
for rape at any time in fact, they found her
to be such a crazy, insane, just idiot that she

(35:23):
actually lost the case. But then the corrupt sorrows judge
find him anyway. I mean, it's ridiculous, what the law fair?
And I think that's what turned a lot of people
is watching, because you know that if they're doing it
to him, they will do it to you. They will

(35:44):
do it to you. I mean, how many IRIS agents
did this?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Yeah, I'm not thrilled about that.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I'm hoping that I want Musk and Ramaswami to get
in there, and I want must to do exactly to
the government what he did to Twitter. Eighty five gone by,
Go get.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
A job, cut the fat.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
And everybody's talking about infrastructure. I'll tell you what, why
don't we take our eighty million or eighty thousand or
however and the heck many new tax employees and actually
put them to work building something, doing something. Let's fix
some bridges, let's fill in some potholes, Let's teach some children,
let's build.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
This, Let's build this free internet that everybody was supposed
to have.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
But yeah, that we still don't have. Thank you Elon
Musk for starlink or you wouldn't even be here.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
We're talking about in a few moments.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Here, Okay. William McGinley White House Council.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
He's a Republican lawyer, served in Trump's first administration and
he's been acting as the General Council. He was the
outside council for election integrity. He helped get Trump in
this time because there should never have had to have
been a council for integrity of the vote. Should just
been that way. But people being what they are.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Ratcliffe, he was great on cheers. He's had such a
good career with his voice acting.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well. So was William McGinley on Happy Days. After that,
there is that.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how I feel
about a big for CIA director, but you know he
would be funny, you know. Fifty nine.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
That's that's John Ratcliffe about my age. Has been picked
for CIA director. Former Texas congressman. He was Director of
National Intelligence in the first Trump administration. So he's he's
a good pick. Probably the best known of all of them.
Mike Huckabee has been chosen to serve as US Ambassador
to Israel.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
And what a perfect pick.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Have you heard what he had to say? No, there
are no settlements. We don't do settlements. This is not
I mean he is a hard liner as far as
defending Israel as a nation against quote marks Palestine. Okay,
you mean terrorists. They're not all terrorists, be fair.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
I'm sure there's one or two.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
So it's like, and this guy is a former governor
of Arkansas. He is a Baptist minister. I did not
know that he hosted a long running news interview show.
His daughter, Sarah Huckabee, well we all know about her,
previously served as Trump's press secretary.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Is she a governor? Now? Yeah, yeah, she's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
She's got a brain in her head. And now we
get to vivek An Elon the Department of Government Efficiency
nicknamed Doge, which is also the name of a cryptocurrency troll.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
So he picked Elon, picked Doze just because it was
like a goofy troll thing. The what is it? A Shelty?
Was the kind of dog it is? A not a Yorky,
the one the Queen likes. The heck what those dogs called.
Everybody's gonna make fun of me for not knowing what
kind of.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Dog that is?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Corky? Okay, so it was it was a joke. It
wasn't like a real crypto. And then when he kind
of just mentioned it as as a trolley joke, it
actually became legit. So this is like a troll on
a troll. It's hilarious. I love that he is just
so quirky and he's always got that twinkle in his

(39:21):
in his eye, and I love the memes with the
kitchen sink in the White House and funny, really funny.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
So also Vivek Ramaswami, who was our was our our
choice for president to begin with.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Brilliant, brilliant man, good daddy.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
He founded a pharmaceutical company. He's an entrepreneur. He ran
against Trump for a bit and then wound up throwing
his support behind him when it became a parent. He
wasn't going to have as much traction as Melanie and
I would have hoped, but having him on the team
and that was pretty much a given that he was

(40:00):
going to have some position on Trump's cabinet.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
He was actually the first one to defend Trump when
all the other candidates were up there bashing him and
calling him all these names. Right, you know, He's like,
we don't have to do that. We don't have to
do that. He's he's a good person.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah he is. Ah, Yes, everybody's crushed Tulsi gabber.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
A crush on her. She looks like a real, honest
to goodness superhero.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah she does. She's going to be Director of National Intelligence.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I think is a great She.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Is a military veteran. She's a former congresswoman.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
She actually still serves in the.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Reserves, doesn't she h that's my understanding. She's a former Democrat,
and over time, because she was because she had a
head on her shoulders and was willing to be moderate,
was willing to be reasonable, was willing to talk to
the other side and make decisions for herself, became a pariah,

(41:02):
precame persona on grata and other fancy words trying to.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
She actually sued and won. I think it was Hillary Clinton,
but don't Hillary.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Hillary called her a Russian.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
A Russian asset, which is garbage. And now they're trying
to do that again, and and we need we need
to start taking these people to task. I hope we
get a coalition of lawyers that just start suing these
you know, every Russian ass I mean, really with the
Russia stuff. They do they not have any other tune

(41:38):
to play.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Russia is flat ass broke.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
They don't even have the GDP that Texas.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
There's there's, They've got nothing. Everything has been invested into
this war. They can't do it themselves. They've been funded
by other countries. I'm not going to go into the
into the audiyata about which countries.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
With access of the blah thing is thanks to the
I don't even like saying Biden because I don't even
know who's president right now, but thanks to the mismanagement
of the current cabal, you know, Biden's basically dead. Kamala
was out there, you know, tworking with Meghan the Stallion
stallion and paying her what was it, fifteen million dollars

(42:21):
to do So none of that was organic, No, none
of that. I talk a little bit about that during
my rant because I actually have a rent of the
week today.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Oh yeah, cool, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
It was a quote that I said while I was
driving off handed, and you wrote you liked it so much,
you wrote it.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Down so exactly.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Yeah, what what they did to her? They literally chased
her out of her own party and that absolute moron.
And I don't usually like flat out call people names,
but that what's her name? What is her name? Lacy
something or other? That that is it took her place
in Hawaii. My lord, that woman you there is nothing

(43:01):
behind her eyes. I mean you can look her in
the face and there is nothing there. I don't know
how she got into office, but I don't understand how
trout Mouth keeps getting voted back in or Pelosi, who.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
By the way, trouble Mouth is. I can't remember her, dang,
Maybe so she's trout Mouth, mad max Maxine Waters.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yes, it calls for violence all the time, all the time.
That woman calls for violence. She's vile. I don't understand
how anybody votes for that free stuff, but she doesn't deliver.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
It doesn't matter. She promises free stuff every four years,
so she gets selected.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
Well, okay, people can't be that dumb that if you
keep if you keep pushing the button and nothing, no
pellet ever comes out. At some point, you've got to
stop pushing the button and trying something else. Even a
rat could figure that out. All right, So we love
Tulsi mad Gates.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
This is the one that they're peeing their pants the most.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Oh, they have gone killer Attorney general.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Now this guy has an uphill battle because there's just
because they won't, you know, I hope they do it,
but they won't.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
But you know, there's a little piece, a little tiny
part of me that I think he would be wasted
there because if you're being attorney general, you're kind of
like keeping your head down doing work, and man needs
to be out there doing matt.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Yeah, he's he's taken. He's taken the right people to
task at.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
The right Yeah, there's some.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Very vile things. Yeah, Okay, little Marco Rubio, as Trump
called him back in twenty sixteen Secretary of State.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
I don't trust Rubio, so I'm not sure what to
do with this one.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
But he is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, top
Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and comes with extensive foreign
policy experience. Okay, that's a wait and see one, yea.
You know, well, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (44:53):
I didn't realize he was fifty three. I thought he
was younger than that.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
He looks younger than that, So that's why he keept calling.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Him little little. Yeah, he's got a bit of fi.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, he does his baby face RFK.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Who's ripped by the way.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
That guy Holy Crowley.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah, definitely a Kennedy, good looking guy. Too bad his
family just psyched out on him.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah, his family did everything they could to sabotage him,
which you know that just goes Yeah. Well, I mean,
the Derek family basically created the modern day Democratic Party,
you know. So the name Kennedy is so associated with it.
I just it's it's like, if you're Kennedy, you're genetically

(45:34):
a Democrat, yeh. And this guy's not. I mean, he's
not a Republican. He's an independent. And there are a
lot of people who came to Trump because Robert Kennedy
endorsed Trump. I think he had a huge part in
it that a lot of people don't. I don't think
a lot of people realize how big a party had
in this because this is the family of the Democratic

(45:57):
Party and the know, so this is a big deal.
The others I've never heard of, but let's go in
and go over them anyway. Doug Collins will be running
the VA. Former congressman also a Baptist minister, he served
in the Navy and the Air Force Reserve. He authored
a book about Trump's first impeachment that argued that Democrats

(46:18):
were impeaching him to get revenge for him beating Hillary
Clinton in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Literally, well, they started impeachment proceedings before he even took office.
They bragged about it. They're doing it again. They're already
they're already getting the little shadow shadow cabinet together.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Doug Burgham sixty eight has been selected for Interior Secretary.
He's a software executive and the governor of North Dakota.
Sorry about that, I know how South Dakota's get so
offended when you call it North Dakota.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Well, they should name himself something different than Dakota then.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah. Stephen Whitcoff sixty seven has been appointed a Special
Envoy in the Middle East, which is not a cabinet position.
He is a real estate investor and a campaign donor, so.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure who he is either. Yeah, all right,
So we've got JD. Vance, Marco Rubio. We don't have
a Department of the Treasury yet. But I think I
heard rumblings about the possibility of Bernie Sanders having a
role in this administration.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
That actually would be I think.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
That was in that neighborhood, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah, Yeah, I think I think there's there's talk of
him being involved in the which I think would be great.
Because I will say this about Bernie, love him or
hate him, he has been the most consistent politician that
has been in any position of power in the US

(47:45):
in my lifetime.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Absolutely, And he's passionate about what he believes. I think
he really does believe it.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
So you put the dumb old commun is and he's
not done.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
He's actually no, he's not done at all.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Put the old commedy somewhere where his strength can be utilized.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I'd say Department of Labor.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Put him in there, I think so, Yeah, yeah, that
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
So he talks about the workers a lot. If he
was the Department of Labor, then we.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Have a surgeon general. I never understood why they.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Put I think that would be under Health and Human Services,
but I don't know for.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Sure because I never understood why he puts a brain
surgeon in the hood. It just never understood the Carson.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
And don't get me wrong, I have a deep affection
and respect for Ben Cars love him. He's a fantastic
human being, too nice to be president's way, too nice
to be president of the United States or any other country.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
And brilliant. I'm also sick of people saying that a
brain surgeon who literally unconjoined twins and and actually had
an amazing career, and they kept calling him stupid because
he wasn't racist enough for them. The black face of
white I mean, how stupid is that? That's stupid. It's like,

(49:14):
I can't take it.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
It's usually the the Ivory Tower dipsticks, you know, the awfuls.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
The affluent female liberal.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Awfuls, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
White white affluent. Yeah, so there are quite a liberal females.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
There are quite a few positions still to be taken.
I think after he's announced Rubio Gabbard, Elon Vivekan, especially
Tom Over there, oh my gosh, oh my god, it's
going to be it's they're they're trembling, they're peeing their pants,
it's it's I wish I could say I feel badly

(49:56):
for them, but.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
And I think this is the first time in in
my lifetime that I've seen a vice president that doesn't
scare me that, oh my god, that person could become
president at some real losers, And yeah, I would, I
would not I would feel confident with with vance at

(50:20):
the helm. I I mean, when we look at you know,
from Biden to to Kamala, they were always trying to
pick somebody dumber than them, and you just I mean.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Dank Whale or or or even Sparrow Agnew or Gerald Ford.
They were all sub substandard.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
I think he got a bad rep the Agnew. I
know very little about.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
He.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
I think the I mean it's before my time. I
wasn't even alive yet. I mean, my only experience with
Agnew is them making fun of him on laughing.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
So we are. We are huge fans of Rowan and
Martin's laugh In. We've watched the first five seasons of
it and their entirety and part of the sixth. We
never got done with it, but it was It was
a show I watched when I was really young, and
you know, watching Goldiehan slink around with body paint all

(51:19):
over her, you know, I was three years old. I
gotta tell you had an effect on me.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Probably, Yeah, I was gonna say it, probably.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Or Chelsea Brown or you know whoever it was.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I think they even got a what's your name?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Joanne Worley wants?

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say that she was adorable.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Yeah, still is still still kicking it. Yeah, Yeah, she
was in Wicked. She was a production Wicked.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Oh, she'd be perfect in that. Oh I wish I
never get to never got to see Planet a planet
they never got to see. Why I see Planet? I
got to see Phantom of the Opera. Almost said Planet
of the Opera. I'm like, Okay, that's that's a crossover
that doesn't need to happen.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Absolutely, we're gonna be talking and pass the upcoming movie
of Wicked.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Is there going to be a movie?

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Yeah, we're going to be talking. We're gonna's we're gonna
mention in passing one of our segments later.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Okay, I'm not familiar with that. So I'm excited. I
think that we have some amazing things on the horizon.
I'm looking forward to. We are going to be all right,
let's have a little bit of fun.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
So are they or aren't they?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
It's still kind of up in the air. So let's
let's talk about Alex Jones, shall we? How many of
you out there having Alex Jones's right jar that went
from being a jar that you put a quarter in
every time Alex Jones was right about something that they
called him the tinfoil had conspiracy theorist crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Person by the network and now.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
And now you had to to graduate up to a
five gallon bottle because he's right so often and continues
to be right.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
We could we have a lifetime supply of his vitamins
that he sells.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
We don't don't, we don't buy, but we could. But yeah,
he is. He is a self made man. And he
has exposed a lot of very powerful people that got
really mad with him, and they took him down with
in the in the worst, just the most awful way,

(53:25):
basically standing on the graves of children. He had nothing
to do with it, absolutely nothing to do with it.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
And yet they still who sues a human being for
one point five billion dollars?

Speaker 3 (53:36):
People who can get one point five billion dollars because
they're they're just that awful. I mean, that's just that
was the guy who actually killed those kids where I mean.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Everybody's tayn by Alex Jones. I don't even know the
name of the guy who did it.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Hello, Yeah, is he alive? Is he dead? I don't know?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
He is he in?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
I don't know. I don't even know where this person
is because they've been going after Alex Jones, and the
reason they went after him was because he exercised free speech,
and the things that he said, they say, they say,
he said, he didn't and there's just like with Trump,

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hours and hours and hours of video to prove it.
It all started with a phone call into his show
where somebody I'm not even going to go into the particulars,
but basically somebody said, well, I saw this, this, and this,
so what do you think of that? And he's like, huh,
I didn't think of that. And they twisted it and
turned it around and then tried to say that, you know,
he sent people to harass him. None of that happened.

(54:44):
None of that happened, and and they just law fared
him and law fared him, and law fared him because
he pissed off some powerful people. So they thought that the.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Ultimate you know, I'm sorry to interrupt the old and
it's usually attributed to the left speaking truth to power.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
That doesn't even make any sense. I've always hated that phrase.
What does that even mean? It doesn't mean anything?

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Is this okay?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Green for the s green for the solder of my toenail.
It's like a bunch of moosh words together. It doesn't
mean anything. Seriously, When you ask somebody what does that mean,
they just shake their head at you, like you're the
dumb one, but they can't tell you tell me what
does that mean?

Speaker 2 (55:24):
It just means telling off the people who are in
power by showing them the truth that they're liars and
thereby undermining their power. That's what it means.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
So you're you're telling the truth to people who are
in power.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yes, and thereby undermining them because they're their empire is
built on lies.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
That's not how people use that phrase.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
That's what it means, though.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Because when somebody like is you know, you have to
accept the fact that I'm gonna, you know, cut off
my child's genitals, and how dare you say anything I'm
speaking truth to power? Is like, okay, not truth and
be I have no power. So how does that apply?

Speaker 2 (56:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I don't think they even know what their own phrases mean. Okay,
I take back the tonail thing, because when you explain
it that way, if they use it correctly, that that
kind of does make sense.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Well, I mean, that's what he was doing.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
This is the same thing as the emperor has no clothes.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Very much so, okay, very much so.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
I can we just say that then everybody understands that one. Anyways,
he ticked off a lot of people. So the ultimate
gag apparently is that all of his assets had to
be liquidated. He lost everything he's ever built, Info Wars,
all of it, and supposedly the Onion, which doesn't make
any money, won the bid to buy it all, but

(56:43):
they didn't. So we've got Schrodinger's Schrodinger's Onion going on
here because I don't know. Last thing I heard, I
think it was.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Supposed to be. I mean, the last you tell themently.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Oh okay, well let me read this article and then
we'll read the next to call. The Onian CEO and
Collins confirmed that the publication purchased Alex Jon's Info Wars
outlet in a Saturday series of post But they didn't
and they had to go to Blue Sky because they're
a bunch of whissies and are afraid of Twitter. Sorry.
X Joan claims there is wrongdoings in illegal activity, and

(57:17):
there was. So what happened is they made this kind
of backroom deal. They didn't have the money to buy it,
so they were like, okay, well we're going to buy it,
and then any profits we make after that, then we'll
give that to the parent. And that's not how auctions
work that, that's not how sales like that work. So

(57:41):
I'm not really sure what was going on there.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
And then the interim the info Wars website, it did
go down, Momentary dot com and you know, band dot
video all went down.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
But they're back up now, they're back up now. Okay.
So this guy said, I want to give a quick update.
You already already. Let me short of it. We won
the auction, and you're not going to believe this. The
previous info works for you book, what's not taking it well?
He shared that the Onion a satirical news website which
used to be funny, but then they got all woke
and now that are not funny anymore. They won the

(58:12):
bid and blah blah blah blah blah. Jones. Okay, so
what they're saying is Sandy Hook family said the massacre
was a hoax. He did not say that. They do
not have video of that, They do not have proof
of that because it did not happen. He did say
things in the general realm. It was more in the

(58:33):
form of questions. I'm not saying I agree with him
or not. All I know is in the United States
of America, you have the right to free speech. And
there's just not a lawsuit here. I can't believe that
they won this lawsuit and his families moved to liquidate

(58:55):
his business takeover social media accounts, and it was granted
by a corrupt judge. Throughout their efforts to acquire genes platforms,
he has spread conspiracies about legal missteps. It's not conspiracies,
it's true. You can line up. He recently claimed that
the auction for his info warst site was changed from
a regular auction to a secret auction two days before

(59:16):
it occurred. And they're saying this is all crazy and
not true and blah blah blah blah. But oh, to
quote a fellow podcaster, but wait, what's this. Uh looks
like the judge halted the sale because it wasn't dixactly
on the up end up. Uh Oh, I love this

(59:41):
shot glass. That's fantastic. I went, Ladies and gentlemen, please
go to counterculturewise dot com and find a way to
support us so that I can get this needle glass
because I'll share some whiskey with you. Okay, and that's
what I got for my birthday, got a bottle whiskey
with yummy Actually I still have some. On Thursday, a
federal bankruptcy judge in Texas order the evidentiary hearing. Now

(01:00:02):
I had to go. I went all over the internet
because this actually did happen, but I could not find
any So.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
We had to go to a kind of a like
a weird I've never off schedule, but that's that's actually
going to be more and more the norm because people
are ignoring the mainstream media.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
I mean, there's so many stories that when I'm researching
for Chuck, I'll have to hodgepodge it together from and
I tend to use ground news because I want to see, Okay,
what's the left say, what's the right saying. That's why
I always resent it so much when people are Fox News.
I don't watch Fox News. And there actually were multiple stories, studies, sorry,
that proved that far left people will get their news

(01:00:42):
from a single source, and they're in that silo and
that's the other place. Whereas folks on the right, ten
and middle, but mostly the right, we tend to look
at multiple sources and sources.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
For these articles. Everything from mainstream to stuff like in
full Wars or bright Bart But normally we stick to
either local news news station.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
The local stations, yeah, that's where you get the best news,
or you know, if we have somebody on the ground.
I mean that's how I knew about COVID coming from China.
Actually had a friend in China who let us know
what was going on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Oh and I find it's so beautiful that these news sources.
Is this mainstream media. I was listening to the numbers
you were listening to. You were watching a video the
other day. CNN and MSNBC used to have viewership in
the millions, and now they can't even get five hundred
thousand viewers for their most popular shows.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Well, I mean we're ones to talk. We can't even
get one viewer on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Now we don't make We're not putting ourselves out there
as I mean, we are a legit source of information,
but at the same time, we have our entire shows.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
I mean, we don't really have a following on YouTube.
If you are listening on YouTube, give us a like,
give us a.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Share, let us know you're out there, because they're not.

Speaker 3 (01:01:59):
Out there, because we have been shadowed. I actually had
to go back and delete our entire history because they
were giving us hard strikes for four and five year
old videos that they said were you know, misinformation. They weren't,
but they were coming up with just every possible thing
they could and that literally going back four and five years.

(01:02:21):
We've been doing this for eight so it's like, okay,
well I'm just going to take all that down. We
still have them though, so that you can still find
them on Rubble, you can still find them on bit shoot,
and we do have a locals platform, so you know,
well Rubbles is the locals now, so you know, we
don't have a membership, paywall or anything like that. So
we completely depend just on your benevolence. So by all means,

(01:02:44):
head on Overchanic culture as did again help us out
buy our crap. Oh and since we have a whole
new news cycle and Christmas is coming up, let me
know if you have any design ideas, because I I
don't know. I think the Troll and Chief one should
take off now again that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
We've already I think we've already removed the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Let's go I might still be up there. We'll take
or the Federman people actually like that one though, so yeah,
I do need some new designs up there, so we'll
get those up. I did have a couple actually taken out,
which I don't understand. A couple of them. One of
them said, oh, this is copyright. It's like, well, can
be because I drew it myself. And they're like, well

(01:03:29):
it looks like this design. I'm like, but it's not.
And I drew it myself. That you do what you do. Okay.
So on Thursday, a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas order
the evidentiary hearing to review the auction process that resulted
in the infoods be sold. Hey guys, do you need
an editor? There's a Jay in there. Okay. During an

(01:03:53):
emergency hearing, lawyers representing Jones and a company affiliated with
him expressed concerns about the auction process. The judge ordered
an evidentiary here did I just not read that same
thing though? Two weeks determined? Okay, so it's on hold.
It's on hold right now, and Jones said, here it is.
I wish I could play this, but it probably won't

(01:04:14):
play that. You know. Well, since we're still trying to
figure out what's going on, we're still up and Musk
is allowing him. Now, this is funny. This actually went down,
I believe because of Stephen Crowder. But don't quote me
on this. Where folks were pushing on Musk to reinstate

(01:04:36):
Trump and one of the other ones that came up
was Alex Jones, and Musk said no, and because he
had bought everything that they were saying about the Sandy
Hook thing. So now, don't quote. I could be wrong.
It might not have been crowded, it might have been
somebody else. But I do distinctly remember a call, a

(01:04:57):
three way call with and Jones and I think it
was Crowder, where Jones got to talk directly to elon
Musk and tell him this is what went down. And
I did say this, I did apologize. That should have
been the end of it. Yeah, and you know, never
said anything ever after that. They accused me of this, this,

(01:05:18):
and this. It did not happen. And Musk was satisfied
with that and reinstated his account.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Yeah, and that's when they started this whole. By the way,
we are on Blue Sky. I have not posted anything
there because it is such a horrible platform. I can't
figure out how it works.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
I have. I use it on my phone for post
photos and Bible quotes every now and then.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Oh but I bet you the Bible quotes take them off.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I couldn't care less. I mean, I just it's a
it's a it's an alternative. I you know, I have
a present. We have a presence on a lot of different.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
We're everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
We're everywhere and everywhere where you can find a podcast,
we are there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
We've been on some that were closed down because they
were too free speechy oh yeah, parlor.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
We used to be on Parlor.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Parlor. We used to be on Unsilenced Voice.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Yeah, was that that went down.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
On silence voice being gone for parlors?

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Oh? Is it? I have been posting on Odyssey. I went.
I didn't post there for a long long time because
I had so many issues with uploading videos. But it
seems to have fixed that, so posting on Odyssey as well.
So we're on bit Shoot, we're on Rumble, We're in Odyssey.
As far as the actual podcast go, where's audio only,

(01:06:35):
We're pretty much everywhere. On the iTunes and the iHeart
radio and Spotify. We're everywhere. So do do share? Spread
the news? Okay? So at this point, Mother Jones, what
a trash you gotta you gotta go everywhere to try
to figure.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Out Yeah, and I did I have. I have read
Mother Jones in the past when I was younger, and
I thought it was a good bags. They they do
a lot of investigative stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
But they are so biased. Well, yeah, feel the venom
just dripping off.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
It's different now I haven't read the magazine.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Awful, it's so bad. You can't even get through the
Venom to the news. Yeah, because I used to read
them too, and it's gotten really bad. And okay, so
let's see. Alex Jones has unsurprisingly declared that the action
process was rigged and vow that the review process will
return the site to him, while the Onion CEO told

(01:07:34):
the Mother Jones and other news outlets at the sale
is proceeding, Well, you can't have a sale if you
don't have the money, and that's kind of where we're at.
The Onion doesn't have the money. They don't even make money.
That they're kind of no no, but they are kind
of obsolete. I mean, you compare the Onion to the
Babylon b and there's just no Compson Babylon b whether
you you know, whether you're a conservative or not. They're

(01:07:56):
funny not They're just not the you to be he
used to be before.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
They were like ninety percent politics.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Hey, they've gone SNL. I mean they've they've gone SNL
levels of not funny. So yeah, really cringe. I told
I was told Elana, it's going to be very involved
in this, Jones said during a live broadcast on X.
After Infolos was seized and the site shut down, Jones
probably began operating under the name and branding of a
new venture dubbed the Alex Jones Network, which streams on X.

(01:08:26):
Jones noted that lawyers for X were present at the hearing, adding,
somewhat mysteriously, the Calvary is here. Trump is pissed. I
kind of like that, So let's see what happens. Well, well,
we will keep you a price.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
And remember what we showed last week, that video of
Trump saying he was going after the miss and disinformation blockers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Yeah, you know, because they're out of control.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
It's crazy, all right. Well, before we get it into
our normal segments that you all know, one loved wanted
to get into this blood bath last night between Mike Tyson. Okay,
more like a bubble bath.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
I'm really glad I didn't. I mean, it was free
to anybody who wanted to watch it. It didn't require
a subscription, but I never did it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
There was none Netflix and you had to purchase it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Yeah, anyway, I didn't. When you have a bunch of
people going to a going on a network that's not
equipped to handle that many people at once.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Yeah, apparently it was like just nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
It was. It was buffering after the after the first fight,
which is supposedly which supposedly was the good one, and
some people missed out on the fight between the two
ladies and all of that. But once once uh Iron,
Mike and and Jake Paul were in there, you couldn't
watch the game. In most in a lot of cases,

(01:09:57):
it was I.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Mean, they've they've been hyping this up for quite a while.
And I have to hand it to Jake Paul. He
knows how to get eyeballs. The man knows how to
get eyeballs, and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Yeah, and Mike Tyson knows how to get ears. Soh boo.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
Boo.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Yeah, I watched the highlights.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Were they as cringe that I heard? They were?

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
It was sad. It was Tyson. His knees looked like
they were about to give out, and it was slow.
And I don't think this was just this was just
for the money, of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Course it was. I would I would have felt bad
if if I had gone to Dallas, gone to AT
and T Stadium and paid money to see this happen,
I would not have been happy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
Yeah, I think I can show a little bit of this.
I don't know how much of this ill and let's
see here might be able to know that's not the one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah, Jake Paul landed a lot more than Tyson did.
I'll give I'll give I'll give Iron Mike credit. Though
at his age to still be in that kind of
fighting form is quite a oh my, it's quite a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Few, a few good ones. Yeah, I'll probably get taken
down for this, But I just I don't know he didn't.
I mean, look, Tyson is barely moving. They're both and
really as far as uh they're build.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
They're builder in great.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Good shape, both in good shape. But Tyson just didn't
look like him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Jake had of being younger, a lot younger. This was
an exhibition, nothing else. I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Come on they're wearing sequence on their shorts. Is that
a thing? Was that ever a thing? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Well, he also used to be in like a what
an MMA Fighter or something like that, UFC, one of
those two Jake Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
Yeah, no, I think he's mostly done boxing, but he's
boxed against an MFA A Fire two. But it's always exhibition.
So anyways, they went the full eight rounds and at
the very end and see if I can skip skip
to the end, he just basically said, he just said,

(01:12:32):
that's it, bows to him and ends it. He uh,
they called it. Tyson was still going to go, but
he finally finally they said, yeah, we're calling it, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Then they decline they have a respect for each other.
You can kind of yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Tyson just looks tired.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
Though. If I were in my if I were my age,
and if you were your age, if I was my age,
I'll tell you and then.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
They call it for him. Yeah, so it was. It
was sad. It was.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
I wouldn't I wouldn't have wanted to spend the money.
I would have been very upset. But you know, one
thing about that stadium you can say for sure. Jake
Paul one Dallas Cowboys zero.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Oh really, are you going to play.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Like that until they start winning?

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
Heck yeah, Hawks fan does always have a special place
in in my in my in my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
So a Hawks guy, I don't care. I don't live
in Dallas, I live in wake All. Do what I want.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
We won't have our home team anyway, Do what I want.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
The Baylor Bears, go Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Yeah, well that's college though, that's not that's almost the
big leagues. I think that's a completely different sport.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Usually when you say big leagues you're talking about baseball.
But it also it also.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Moved the ball to the other side of the sports.
All right, well, let's close the chapter. We let Crowder
do the closing time, all the thing and stuff. He
did that for Kamala. We'll let him do that. And
I hasn't it been listen, no nasally twang, no cackling.

(01:14:28):
Hasn't it been lovely this last week?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
You know, I don't miss Staffian Elmer at all. I
just don't miss Daffian Elmer at all.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
Yeah. Yeah, so cackles and Fudd. May that ticket rest
in peace. I wish nothing but you know, a piece
of light and retirement on her.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Fudd can go back to his whatever it was he was.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
He was a governor. Wasn't he a governor that that
shot at his own people during COVID who.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Were st Yeah, yeah, back to being a tyrant. Yeah,
a sweet, sweet looking guy. I mean, it looks like
you just want to put your arm around him and
have a burger with him or something. But he's awful.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
He's awful. Anyways, I found this. They I cannot get
over the fact that they try to say that Kamala's
they tried to say that it was a grass roots
I'm like, she had one point two billion dollars with

(01:15:38):
a big bad bee that she spent and is still
in debt, I believe for twenty million.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
A million dollars, and she didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
We got all of those you know, big time stars,
you know, even even got Beyonce to not sing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Yeah, I would insisted she at least warble as tune
or two.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
And and you know, one of the press behind her
at all times. They're trying to say that was a
grass roots It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
You don't pay people millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Machine effort, that that was the machine at its worst
behind her. One billion percent of the way to even
try to pretend that, you know, AI generated crowds and
and all of these things. This was not grassroots. And
I was ranting a little bit about this as we

(01:16:35):
were driving somewhere the other day, and I just blurted out,
it's hard to fake a grassroots movement when you haven't
touched grass for decades. And Jim thought that was so
funny that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
He wrote so we could be the basic ginger it was.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
It was, well, it's not a ginger snaps, but it
was not a grass roots She had the entirement, I mean,
basically the meme with with you know, replacing the skull
with the rock. Why am I having such a hard
time with names tonight? Thank you Indiana Jones with you know,
her replacing Biden. And they were stuck with her that

(01:17:15):
she was a diversity higher from the beginning. She slept
her way into the position. She had no skill. She's
horrible as she couldn't speak to save her ever loving life.
And even when she was reading what she was speaking
in Europe cackle cackle, yeah, and unlikable. She couldn't even
get up to one percent. Dropped out of the race

(01:17:36):
at the very beginning Tolsie was in it longer than
she was and got more votes. And you know, then
they just threw Biden or Bernie under the bus and
stuck in old Joe and and so he's like, well,
I'm gonna pick me a black woman, oh because you know,
qualifications be damned. And you know, so they got stuck

(01:17:56):
with her, and there's this speculation and it's hilarious and
I would, I would. I'm gonna enjoy the history books
in about ten years going back on this and finding out.
But there's a speculation that they did want to have
a primary, that they did not want her to be
the candidate. And when Joe came out and endorsed her

(01:18:17):
full throated, that was his last little fu to the
party that you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Know there there is a validity to that possibility.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Yeah, because I know there's no love lost there. I know.
I know that dude Jill hated her.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Every way the way that I mean. I didn't see
the actual video, but it seemed the way he was
chumming with Trump the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Oh yeah, there was. Let me see if I can
find this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Yeah, it was. It was it was fun.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
To gole fight with Hitler. Oh my gosh, that's one
of my favorite. Yeah. They were just they were they
were just see if I can find it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
But I mean some of them like going out for
ice cream together and going on a boat ride together.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Yeah, people, let me tell you about my bed. Yeah,
I wish, I wish I would have had that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
This was just something I brought, just came to mind.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
But yeah, but they were, they were. I don't see
it now, but that's what they were joking about, is
is they were just chummy chummy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Yeah, they were just just just kind of hanging.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Is that Biden?

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
No, Actually, that's that's god awful, Kelly guy.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
There's just some ugly old bald guys.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Another ugly old I'm I'm kidding. I will say this
about Joe. He's a good looking guy for an old geezer.
Was so anyway, I don't I don't think there's a
whole lot of respect, especially given that they were really

(01:19:56):
at each other's throats. Each side was at each other's throats.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
After the Biden just looks giddy. He's so happy. And
then they showed pictures of doctor Jill voting. She wore
an all red suit and came out just smiling from
ear to ear and people are saying, yep, there's two
more Trump voters.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
It wouldn't have surprised me.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Yeah, no, it's it was chopping off their heads on purpose. Airbag.
I don't bring this down, but he's.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
I think it's going to be you know, for those
of you who are truly upset, I'm gonna tell you
it's going to be fine. You need to know.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
He's just grinning from here to ear. He's just down
a ally good time now that zooming in on Trump
and then they asked him questions and his answers were
so weird. I think I don't remember the exact questions
that don't quote me on this, but it was something
along the lines of how are you going to get

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the hostages out or something like that, and they were
talking about, you know, Hamas, and his answer was, how
are you going to get out of getting hit in
the head by that camera? And everybody's just like okay,
So that was weird, but yeah, totally hitler. I can

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see it how they're absolutely so terrified after you know,
screeching until the man practically, what you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Guys need to do on the democratic side, bring America
a viable candidate. Yeah, you can't bring one a viable.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
I don't even have a bench. I mean you literally
have nobody. People, What what do you've got. You've got
hairspray Hitler in California. That's the best you've got. Actually,
he's not even a Hitler. He's more like a Stalin
and Hitler would be like, wow, Okay, you you went
a little bit over the top.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Yeah, I'm I just bring us a viable candidate, Bring
somebody with brains, bring competence, because I'll be honest, that's
all I want is competence. You know, they had the
competent ones all went over the Trump side. You had
Tulsi and NORFK Junior and Bobby Junior and Tulsi are
now on Trump's side.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
You pushed him out.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Yeah, they won't listen to us.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Why would they. We don't represent them. You know, we're
just a couple of right wing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
Okay, we have spent an entire hour and a half
just talking about the fun things that are coming up.
So let's let's check out some weird and wonderful let's
have a little bit of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Counterculture Wise is proud to present News of the Weird
and wonderful. Here are your hosts, Melanie Hope and jim Monis.
All right, well, we've seen the images of destruction, debris,
and flooding left behind from Hurricane Helen. I'm so glad
we don't live in our hurricane zone.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
We do get tornado, we.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Do get tornado warnings, but we've not been hit by
one yet. But other but other images. I was like,
she knocks on wood and I'm like, oh, yeah, me too.
That's that's the first time ever. Other images also came
out of the storm. Family photos, snapshots of happy memories
and important milestones left behind in the mess. After the

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deadly hurricane. In October, Taylor Shanker, who lives in Canton,
North Carolina, nearby Hardhead Asheville, found herself with about two
hundred family photos that didn't belong to her. It started
after the storm. Shanker's house weather Helene well, but she
said her friend's entire home was destroyed by flooding from
the Swannanoa River. At least two hundred and twenty people

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across six states died in the hurricane, including over forty
at least that's sad, including over forty in bunkhom County,
which includes Asheville. Shanker and her friend went for a
walk to check out the home, which was one of
the many in Nashville that was destroyed. We spent about
four hours digging them, looking for any belongings to hers
we could find, because their house literally doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
And during that process I found about four of five
individual photographs. Who laid out the photos along some clothes,
and we found an American flag along the bank. Hoping
they would be reunited with people, Shaker said, thinking about
the photos she left behind, kept it up that night,
just thinking, here are these little photographs that miraculously made
it through all this, and now we're sitting here, and
what if it rains or what the wind blows and

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they aren't able to reunited with their family. She said,
that would be such a shame because they made it
through all of this, and I know how special a
memory like that can be for somebody. So Taylor went
back to the next day at the photos and ended
up finding more. She said it was obviously the photos
belonged to multiple families. It was a middle school basketball team,
it was a photo of a beloved dog. I found

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a wedding photo of a bride hugging somebody. She said,
you take photos because you have a moment you want
to remember, and so they did all seem just special.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
Yeah, and that's before we could upload them and have
them mm hmm in the cloud. I mean. Now, a
lot of the younger kids, I'm sure have a bajillion
photos of their food and no photos of their dead
family members.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
There's that Realizing how many important family memories she now
had in her possessions, she started the photos from helene
Instagram page a virtual Lost and Found. She hoped people
would recognize the photos out in her page.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Me dear momsy Well, he literally just walked away from
the food, and then when I went to put it
up to the dog wouldn't get He's like.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Hey, I know. Uh. So she hope people would recognize
the photos on her page. The word of mouth will
help reunite them with their rightful owners. The Instagram page
is filled with school portraits, Christmas cards, images of childhood friends,
and families on vacation.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Lovely about that is, even if the people don't claim
them now, they're online.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
Right and they're there forever.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
Until we get an emt and yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
She even found a photo of Michael Jordan dunking the
ball that a local man says his dad snapped years ago.
She took them home, dusted them off, and categorize them
and folders and bins for safekeeping until they could be
returned to their owners. Shanker shed she found about one
hundred photos herself, but picked up about another one hundred
from other people have found them, including search and rescue teams.

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At the time of the interview in late October, she
said she'd returned about fifteen percent of the photo she's collected.
She still adds new photos to Instagram daily. Each reunion
is a heartwarming reminder that what she's doing is important.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Got babies, We've got vacations, We've got proms. I'm looking
at them instapage. This is insane. Just what a labor
of love. I mean, look at somebody's like this Halloween one.
Imagine losing that forever. You know, that picture of your
family when you're all dressed up and smiling. Dad dresses Tigger.

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That's adorable.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
Vacation pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Some of these pictures are absolutely priceless. This a little
girl on the point.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
They are from precious moments. Some of these people might
be no longer around. Yeah, or maybe they're fully grown
now and don't have any childhood pictures and.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Only memory they have jailso haircut, school photo. Hey, that
looks like you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
He kind of does, just as confused and scared with
the big lights in the seat and everything photos.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
I mean, what a beautiful waiter. I mean, I hope
these are. Oh, I can't wait to read some of
these stories. Yeah, gradual Wating class of twenty thirty two.
I just wonder, And she says where it is. It
was recovered by search and rescue. Exact location unknown. This

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one's small enough that that probably means something. To Bob.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
We can't even And there are people who found their
pictures on this site too.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
His hand on his shoulder.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
She said. She recently went for another so called photo walk,
where she digs through debris to find images to recognize
the woman's late sun and yet another photo. Becky and
Nancy Tate, a mother daughter duo, also found old family
photos through the Instagram page. It was an extremely strange
feeling to be just scrolling on social media and randomly
see a picture of me when I was ten in
front of a Christmas tree case in point. Nancy Tate

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told CBS that's how I found out about photos from
Ely and a total fluke and scrolling and seeing a
picture of me covered in dirt and there it is. Wow. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
So yeah, okay, the process is definitely fulfilling. It's fun
to see a moment that a photograph is reunited and
to see the people in the comments tagging each other
and saying, hey, is this you or oh my gosh,
you just reminded me of the moment in my life
that I'd totally forgotten about. This is beautiful. I will
make sure that well. I mean, the link is clickable,
and all of our links, by the way, a cniculture

(01:28:51):
has a dig in and we have all of the
links are archived over course to these things. But yeah,
I would go on this instant page and who knows.
I mean, there's some.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Really lovely pictures of some really lovely people there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
She even has a po box now, so if you
find photos during your Hurricane Helen clean up, please mail
them to that is so they're all in one place.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
The beautiful, beautiful thing. I mean, look at that, this
is this picture of the baby or the school photo
of this little boy. Those are those cannot be replaced, right?
Those literally can?

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
That one looks far out and groovy. Yeah, you know
that one's from nineteen seventy three outfit. Holy moly.

Speaker 3 (01:29:34):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
Oh she found a vase. That's pretty Oh that's an urn.
That's somebody's like grandma or something.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
H Wow, that's really cool, really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
So or dog I mean yeah, it could be parrot.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
Well, thank you, miss Shanker. That was that's absolutely amazing
and thanks for what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Is really sweet. Oh I'm getting for klempt tops to
amongst yourself. Okay, next up, I went to the actual
Facebook page on this one because the article did not
do it justice. Let's see if I can make it
a little bit bigger. Canadian rock band Canadian rock band Triumph,

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local rock band The Miners and Sons have won the
Guinness World Records title. We do love our Guinness World
Records and for the deepest concert underground. Officially, the deepest
concert underground was that two thousand, four hundred and sixty
four point nine meters, which is about eight thousand feet
below sea level at kid Mine in glen Coe operation
in Timris Ontario, Canada, on the fifteenth of November. It

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is official. Who are the miner and sons? Well they're
aptly named, that's for sure. You know, Jeremy Wilson, Norndwier,
John Olson, Steph Berube and Sean Harris. Why do we say,
you know? These are the guys who bring you rock
on the river. These are the guys who eat, sleep
and breeze.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
So there must be local, local.

Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
Music, says local. They're now record holders. How fun they
get a Northern College Tisdale but mean in heating, that's nice.
They got all the ads out there. So these guys,
I guess, went.

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
Way down deep.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
And played a rock concert. Happen do it? This is
not video the positivity.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
Yeah, graduations noise.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
So Guinness World Record and you know that's that's one
of those things. It's not like you know, how many
ping bong balls can you stuff in your mouth? That
this is something. We had to get a whole bunch
of people together and everything had to be in place.
So how fun. How they got their instruments.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Down there, I don't know Sadie gave us especially Yeah, people,
I mean, say what you want. The drummers have to
lug the most crap, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
We take the most crap too. Yeah, I'm just saying, Okay,
So you said, Sadie gave us this next Sady.

Speaker 2 (01:32:09):
Gave us this next one, and it was very important.
These are wonderful people. This almost made the wonderfuller.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Okay, I'm already sad I don't even know what the
story is.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
A couple in Arkansas or Arkansas, depending where you're from,
I have emptied their savings and wedding fund to save
a ten month old dog found stricken by the side
of the road. Weeks of passer love is inspired thirty
nine thousand dollars in donations to help save the pooch
and replace the money, says so self, please, really, guys,

(01:32:42):
so self sacrificingly forked over for emergency surgery.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
That's a lot of alliteration.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
It was Halloween day when Dylan McKay was and there's right,
there's poemsay.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
Doctor Seuss.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Anyway, it was Halloween when Dylan McKay was leaving work
that he saw on Facebook and notice that a golden
doodle had been seen on the side of the road,
apparently injured near his home. She had been struck by
a vehicle in a hit and run, he wrote in
a Facebook post about their ds. I don't know. It
had been raining all day and she was wet. I
gathered towels and blankets and sped to the location. The

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dog was still there with her back legs bloodied and broken,
unable to move. Some strangers helped lift the dog into
McKay's car when he made the fateful choice to speed
towards the nearest emergency hospital despite her life threatening injuries.
She did not whine, She did not growl. She might
have squeaked.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Sadie got her birthday box.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Yeah, yeah, she got loaded down with The house is
full of bars. Boom boom boom, rattle rattles. That's one
of her food toys. Or squeak squeak. It's a toy.
You know. We try to be a professional organization, and
we are, but the pets run it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Enjoy the squeak. The squeaks for you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
Yeah, and the squeaks are squeaks. Are joy. No, it's fine.
She tried to crawl towards me and laiter head on
my lap, he wrote, joined later by his fiancee, Emily Roberts.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
You keep reading it, I'll kick out the dog.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Thank you. Joined later by his fiance Emily Roberts, McKay
stood at Greenbrier Animal Hospital and was told that no
microchip was present and that any and all expenses would
fall on the young man just beginning to make his
way in life.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
They didn't near near the near the near mister McKay's home.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Not not near the dog's home.

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
The golden doodles are like five dollars dogs. Somebody somewhere
looking for that dog. Oh, we'll find out, Michael.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Chip your pets, all of them, even your frogs. We
don't care all of them, okay. So I decided that
moment that I would do whatever was necessary to help
this puppy. She deserved a chance of life, he wrote
in a gofund me set up with Roberts to take
care of the dog, which they named Acklin. Broken legs,
possible infection, flees with a diagnosis. The following day, the

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doctor said the leg would have to be amputated, and
for the other one, which would have to be perfect,
a ten hour drive to Mississippi State University was required.
The cost by then had reached seven thousand. Aah. We
have pulled the money from our wedding fund and our
overall life savings to fund these medical expenses. The pair
wrote that, being said, we are joyous and excited at
the possibility of saving this wonderful girl and giving her

(01:35:28):
the best life she could imagine. Ackland's surgery was successful
to save both of her injured legs, no amputation necessary.
You stop crying, Melanie.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
I'm not crying. You're crying.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
In an update posted on November eleventh, by which time
to go fund me had shattered the total request for
eleven thousand, McCain Roberts wrote that she is now beginning
to bear her own weight and is starting physical rehab today.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
Look at this picture.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
That's really sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:35:56):
It makes forty three.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Our sweet girl is able to get this much deserved
help because of all of you, they wrote. Her rehabilitation
and therapy will be expensive, but we are working as
hard as we can. All right, Well, thank you so
much for taking care of this adorable pooch.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
I'd like to.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Out the owners of those people.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Right now, but like I said, golden Doodles are expensive dogs,
so somebody somewhere is missing this dog. My fear is
that I'm not judging I'm not judging. I'm not judging.
My fear is that the people that I would assume

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let her go or neglected her, or maybe she hopped fence.
I don't know. But what happens when they start reading
the social media post and they want their dog back,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:54):
That's a road we'll have they'll have to cross if
they get to it. I mean, they either they signed
I think all the all the money they put in,
and yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:04):
Maybe maybe they're pulling the Homer Simpson backing into the
bushes and there.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
Yeah, could just be.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
I'm so glad she didn't have to get amputated. And
here's the couple. How cute are they?

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
They really are a cute young couple. We used to
be that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
No, we were never that young. We were never that young.
Sweet baby.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
That is a wonderful thing they did.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Our wedding costs what forty five bucks?

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
I will say the reception costs more than.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
The Yeah, even that didn't cost wedding.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
That wasn't too expensive. We kept it. We kept it
on a on a string budget and we had a
fantastic time. We had a.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Fantastic weren't expecting people to r s v P. But
then we remembered, oh yeah, we live in Vegas. They
came from all over.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
One of our relatives came in just to say hi
on their way to the casino. Yeah, we're not going
to say who, but you know, hey, thanks for dropping
by and thanks for the gift.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
No that there was no gift.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
There was no gift.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
The gift was her presence. That was her gift.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Oh well, all right then thanks for your presence.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Okay, well, now it's time to go in the other interaction. Now,
see that's why we can't have nice things, all.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Right, So this ties in what talked about earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:38:32):
Yeah, we did mention Wicked ego Eyde fans have found
a concerning link on the back of Mattel's new line
of Wicked doll boxes. Wow, do they have a lot
of links. Ahead of a highly anticipated movie premiere on
November twenty second, starring Arianda Grande as Glinda. Oh my goodness,
I do elfelb felba.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
We haven't seen the show.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
I haven't seen it, Mattel launched a line of limited
edition dolls inspired by the stars conditions of the characters
originally created by Greg maguire. Okay, so Aridana Grande, because
didn't they have Kirsten Channer in there?

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
Because I can't imagine Christian Christian Chenowith was in like
a production of its.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
Yeah, I just can't imagine anybody else playing that part.
So Ariana Grande, That's that's an interesting choice.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
I'll be she'll be great.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
She's got the chops.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
She's got definitely got the chops. She'll be great.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
The Fame toy conglomerate stocked Target, Amazon and Walmart on
September twenty sixth, with Glinda's El fab Buzz, all these
other ones.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
Ross Madame Morribles and Fierro's.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
Okay, encouraging story letters to grab their favorite characters for
no more than thirty nine each all matches the specific
actor in the film, with some even having singing capabilities.
But while the toy release was meant to generate buzz
before the movie hits theaters everywhere, fans online pointed to
an inappropriate issue with the packaging that some suggested could

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potentially lead to a massive recall r Ro Raggy or like.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Really expensive collector's items on eBay, which.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
Is exactly what's gonna happen. Just I can't believe we
had the VHS of the Little Mermaid with the Little Yeah,
and we didn't know after the fact, and by then
we're like, oh haha, and you know, tossed it because
nobody watches vhs. Do you know how much that thing's
worth now? Yeah. On November ninth, one shopper took the

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X to show and not Safe for work box error
found on a Glinda toy displayed in store. Sarah jan
Now posted side by side images at the Glenda toy
packaging front and back with the caption the official Mattel
Wicked at doll links to a porn site. Oh my,

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I guess we did not get the u r L
Wicked dot com in time, did we. What do you
bet they thought they were going to be able to
bully the original owner.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
I don't know if it through that much.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
And I close up with the back of the green
box show a link for www dot Wicked dot com,
which I am not going to visit, so don't ask
me to paste it next to the bar code. When
type gym's already typing.

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
In yet we are on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
The u r L sends you to an age restricted
website that says you must be eighteen or older to
view the content upload it. So Jim, sorry, buddy, oh well,
mentally eighteen year older. The video of her filipping necessarily
ness the rose box around to show the same link,
also in the back of another box. She then wrote

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in the comments that she thought the u r L
they meant to share was www dot wickedmovie dot com.
Somebody's getting fired, the film's official website, presented by partners.
You we are into boo. The good news is most
kids wouldn't even know that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
No, it wouldn't. Yeah, it wouldn't. Or if they saw
the restricted they wouldn't. They wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Well, I mean you don't you just have to usually
I'm typing this in just to see what because usually
you just have to say, yeah, I'm eighteen. There's no
that's something that they are trying. Oh my yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
Yeah. There's no doubt about it that this is not
safe for children.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
And there are pictures not.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Even safe for some adults. No, girl, take that away.

Speaker 3 (01:42:31):
Playing there are pictures right on the very front page
the children should not be seeing.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Oh no, there was no restriction, there was nothing asking age.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Yeah. Oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
Sen Vias rushed to the comments of her post to
convey their shock. That's an insane oversight one person or
an X or another question? Why would they do that
knowing that it's mostly kids buying these dolls. I don't
know they're being sold at Target where they still sell
the tech baiting suits. Maybe it was on purpose, just
say I doubt that. But anyway, terms out Lego didn't
make that mistake. Is Leo Mattel.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
Lego is not part of Mattel okay. Also the Betty
Crocker Wicked mix and neither of them featured the wrong link.
They both featured if they featured a Mattel.

Speaker 3 (01:43:21):
Right stickers over the website. What are the Oddsi's box
ended up being worth anything, one curious individual asked, Another
claim this might be the biggest fail inofficial merch history,
especially considering it's meant for kids. Mm hmm. In a
statement to The Independent, and representative for Mattel explained the
company was aware of the label misprint and so dear

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Mattel was made aware of a misprint of the packaging
the MATEL Wicked collection dolls primarily sold in the US,
which intended to do reconsumers to theofficial wickedmovie dot com
landing page. Do we deeply regard this unfortunate error or
taken immediate action to remedy this. Parents are advised the
Mistriniting Career website is not appropriate for children and consumers
who are already have the product or advice to discard

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the product packaging or obscure the link, or hold on to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
It and sell it on eBay for one thousand dollars and.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
May contact matel customers for further information. Hello, Mattel, Uh
huh what do you mean? Sucks to be me? Hello? Hello, Hello, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Can see I Well, I'll bet you there's one company
that's very grateful for all of this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
Yeah, because they just got, you know, our eyeballs something
I would never, never, never visit. Wow. So somebody really
smooched on this.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Yeah, really early smooched the.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
Yeah, that doll's creepy looking already.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Okay, so it's time for no, no, no, no, it's
time for ignorant no no, no, for ignorant tourists. Number one.
There's two of them tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
This one's all yours.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
A naked British tourist had to be rescued after falling
from a hotel balcony while covered in pooh in Thailand
Sin City. The man was said to be extremely drunk
when he returned to his room and Pattia's Red Light
district in the early hours of the morning. Groans and
banging was later heard coming from the.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
That's just normal though, the groans and banging, well, yeah,
in the red.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Light district anyway. Groans and banging were later heard coming
from the fifty one year old's room at the Freelancer hotel,
but staff thought nothing of it because you know, because
you know. It was only when his legs crashed through
the ceiling of an adjacent Internet cafe after he plunged
from the balcony that they realized something was a miss.

(01:45:45):
And there's poop poo face himself. There we go. Shocked game, Yeah, shockgamers,
call police. Is the naked holidaymaker, believed to be from Blackburn,
cried for help? Blackburn, screaming in the dead of poop,
cried for help with his legs dangling.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
From the floorwards.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
Subsequent pictures showed him being guided to an ambulance while
covered up in a blanket.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
He was already covered in something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:08):
He was taken to a hospital with minor injuries and
the sober up. Police said officers later checked this room
or they discovered excrement spirit across the floor.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
Oh, he's not getting his deposit back.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
No, he's not, because he left a big deposit on
the floor. Police Lieutenant Thanawi Yagi said, we have some
ideas about what he was doing in the room to
make it so dirty, but there was nothing illegal. It
is his private life, so he will have to speak
with the hotel to negotiate the bill. Somrak Senso, twenty eight,
witnessed the incident, said the cafe was full with about

(01:46:39):
twenty people at the time. He said, I was sitting
playing games downstairs. I heard the first thump. I didn't
think much of it. After a while, there was another thump.
The ceiling started to break more. There were legs coming
down right on my head, so I called the staff
to come and look. After a while, it seemed like
the ceiling started to sink. He was not a skinny
light boy over there. Umm. It was very shocked. I

(01:47:02):
smelled it, but I thought it was a broken water
pipe or something. No water, that's not a broken mind,
is what that was.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
Yeah, all right. Oh and he was alone. That's what
I don't understand. He was up there doing whatever that
was by himself. Just sorry for the photo. Guys.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
You you Melanie's turn.

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
It's not going to be worse, is it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:47:30):
This sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
This was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Okay. We did kind of allude to this earlier. Yeah,
good old Fox News always doing their fat checking.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
This is why we you know people.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
Is the rest of them and they're owned by the
same people. Fox was mistakenly reported as truth acclaimed by
satirical news outlet The Onion about it having trillions of
dally readers, following for a tongue in cheek lying on
the site we have that on our closing thing. It
has the subscribe it has like I think four billion,

(01:48:04):
we have like three. The Onion has long been a
parody of a real news outlet's consistently publishing outlandish claims.
One of them, which can be found on the websites
about section, says the Union has four point three trillion
readers a day, something that was taken literally seriously. This
is not quite as funny, but up there with the
some Team.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
Wrong, Something Wrong, That is my all time.

Speaker 3 (01:48:29):
Favorite by far Fox News, the Engine has four point three.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Trillion trillion daily.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
The Fox News reporter shared the fake stat on live
television during a broadcast about Alex Jones and be Wars
being sold to the Onion, which still hasn't quite happened,
while another reporter also wrote about it in in Oh
my Gosh, they did it twice. Nobody Fax checks the
Engion builds itself is the world's leading news publication, offering

(01:48:58):
highly acclaimed universally with coverage of breaking national, international, local
news events. It says it has a four point three trillion.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Daily readers, rising from its humble beginnings a print newspaper
in seventeen fifty six. That should have been your first clue. Seriously,
then then now it's always the daily readership, the four
point three trillion. He's going to the single most powerful
and influential organization humanistry, obviously, it's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
Oh they're about is way better than ours. Man. No
waffle makers though, so no, I can't believe they actually
said that. Well, I wonder if they were being tongue
in cheek too. I mean, I didn't didn't get to
see you think they think? Okay, At the time of writing,
Fox news is another vulunched in this day. I'm gonna
have to watch the video before I passed judgment because

(01:49:45):
if he says it, you know while ruin his eyes
are laughing, and yeah, all right, your turn, crap be
tourist part two.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
No this time, naturally it's always the ones from England
and the US. The UK and the US bring out
the worst because we think we run the dang world
and we go in where we go into these sacred
places like we're about to talk about, and we act

(01:50:16):
like we own it. It's stupid anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Right, people hate us, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Yeah, Japanese police, hold on a second, sorry about that.
A block here.

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
I got a Japanese police arrest US man for allegedly
scratching the letters into shrine. I actually had to get
the live article because the download had a giant black
box over the top of all right, So Japanese police
have arrested a sixty five year old of course he's American.
That's what I say, for alleged defacing a Tokyo shrine.
That you don't do that in Japan, you don't do

(01:50:52):
that anywhere, you jack hole, as Steve Hayes. Hayes has
is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters
into a tory gate at the Mai Yinghu Shrine. You're
the one who knows Japanese.

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Meiji Jingu Shrine on Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
Here says he's writing the name of a family member
into the gate, why, which represents the border between the
living and sacred world's endition to religion as a.

Speaker 2 (01:51:17):
Prank, nice prank jerk, that's not.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
A defacing a religious artifact. Is not a prank, all right?
Staff at the mahi Ingu Shrine, constructed in nineteen twenty two,
honor the spirits of Emperor mahe is it Meiji, Maiji
Meiji and his wife, Empress Choken him trying to do

(01:51:41):
French Mai the same day in a lip homage, arrested
his on one was not immediate. Did they show what
he did? I guess not Ami, how they identified Hayes
who authorities say a I'd in Japan with his family
on Monday, Nor what charges he could face slappity, slabty.

Speaker 2 (01:52:03):
Slavity, you know, I mean, you don't have to read
the rest of it because it's going to go on
into other defacings.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
And I'm not going to do that, right, Why what
could possibly.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
Think back to when it wasn't that long ago. It
was back in the eighties. Some guy did something wrong
in Japan or China and was absolutely caned.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
I think it is Korea.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
I think it was it was an Asian country, but
they got caned. Bamboo shoots up the nails. I'm tired
of these morons because every time one of us Yanks
does something stupid, they paint us all with a brush.
Because I'll tell you something. When I was in Japan,
I was an American all the way, but I was

(01:52:45):
very respectful. Yeah, I was respectful of them. I virtually
bowed to them the first time I saw them when
we landed at the airport.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Well, yeah, and I took my.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
First breath of fresh air in about thirty years.

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
And want people to respect us and our customs when
they come here. Yeah, So why wouldn't I respect them
and their customs when I go there? And and that's
the thing is.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
We gotta we gotta respect each other and show some
self restraint at Dork.

Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
Sorry, I'm just done given decency. I mean, come on, people, Yeah, okay,
this next one's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
I always call them lint balls, which is kind of
sad and sickening.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
But isn't that what comes out of your socks in
the dry.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Yes they're yummy. I like them, but they.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
Come off inso flavors. Yummy, yum. All right, So we
all know these little candies. They come in all different.
They're not as good as Francos.

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
No nothing. I don't think any chocolate on earth is as
good as Frangos.

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
In my humblest of opinions, the mint ones they are,
oh my god. That was a tradition in our house.
We would literally go to fred Frederick and Nelson's every
Christmas and get us some mint frangos and Mom would
stock up. She always tried to get enough to last
the year, but it usually lasted to the end of
the month.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
And once once uh Macy's took over, they they started
making them as well, smaller. They're smaller, not as as good,
but they're still delicious. I think there's two different companies
making it, one based out of Chicago and one based
in Seattle. The same, it's never the same. But anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:54:18):
And milk, you know, when I was a kid, I
liked milk, chocolate and part of my adulthood. I like
milk chocolate. I cannot stand milk chocolate now. It just
doesn't taste like chocolate. It just doesn't. I don't know
what they've done to it. In a bid to dodge
a US lawsuit, Swiss chocolate tear Lint and Sprungly has

(01:54:40):
scuppered okay, I've learned a new word, scuppered its own
claims about the excellence of British okay.

Speaker 4 (01:54:46):
In a bit to dodging US lawsuits, Swiss chocolate tail
Lint and Sprungly has schoolubbered its own claims about the
excellence of its products. A conostone if its marketing strategy.
I have to lift my pinky to read an article.
It's not well written.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
Lint has unsuccessfully tried to end a class action lawsuit
in the US launched in February of twenty twenty three
following an article by a US consumer association questioning the
presence of heavy metals several manufacturers, including two bars produced
by Lint. Oh, so we're not talking about the lint balls.

(01:55:23):
We're talking about bars, bars, not balls. It is defense strategy.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Sorry, I'm trying to be a good Christian boy over here.
I just can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
We're allowed to have fun. We're not visiting that site,
that's for sure, and it's defense strategy. The company has
dismantled its own promises of quality. So rather than up
the quality, you're just like, oh my bad, we.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
Saw we might as well. You might as well buy
a Nestley crunch bars, you know, just you forget it.
Whatever I love.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
Now they don't taste good. The chocolate Cheers lawyers maintained
that the words X and expertly crafted with the finest
ingredients printed on its bars were an actionable puffery and
an actionable puffery? What what? According to a decision, well, yeah,

(01:56:15):
it's called advertising, Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
Nobody's expecting a Dove bar to be the greatest chocolate
in the world. But their ads imply that it is
just the most wonderful and it's yummy.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
But sell the sizzle, not the steak. Oh my goodness,
how is this some things the court which dismissed. I mean,
this is going down because you watched their ads and
then you get the anemic little soy patties with you know,
rehydrated onions. You're like, uh, that doesn't look like that.
Bags are, and now it costs dollars and you get

(01:56:50):
like three limp French fries.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
And you notice that I always get like the five
dollars bargain bin box because it's.

Speaker 3 (01:56:57):
Always like he's allowed to go to McDonald's more than
once a year.

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
Now I go once or twice a year.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
Sneaks out every now do I bake bread, I make
bean salad?

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
Go hey hey, hey, hey hey, I willing to. I
will line my fast food receipts right up against yours. Okay,
I'll run out a long time before you do.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
Oh my fuzzy white behind, big boy, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
Big boy.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
When we go to Vegas, I want to go to
a big boy.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
A big boy. Is there a big boy? See he
knows these things. Okay, I will want in a blue
moon get like onion rings. You are you know, five
dollars jolly meal. You never bring home the toy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
Because I don't order the one with the toy. You
is silly brawl. Why you ordered me and get the toy?

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
The whole point is the toy. Their fries suck, they're
burger stink, they're they're pies like burn your face off.
So really the only reason you get food and McDonald's
is for the toy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:56):
I like McDonald's once in a while. Okay, it's not
a big deal. Nike. I order the I order the
special five dollars box that has either a double bacon
burger or a chicken burger. I don't get the chicken
burger because it also comes with chicken McNuggets.

Speaker 3 (01:58:16):
I will admit I have a thing for Jack at
the box tacos. She does there's so terrible and so wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
And I tend to eat.

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
Any ones and they put the stuff on them and
they should give you chopsticks, but they never do.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
And I like, I like, you know, sometimes I'll get
tacos with her. Other times I'll get one of their
bone the other, you know, like a Jumbo Jack burger.

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
Really don't eat out that much. It sounds we don't
eat out all the time, but we.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
Don't really really don't because we have so much food.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
We don't have a house to mortgage. Well, plus I
try to make him good food. I cook everything for scratch.
We have bone broth and homemade bread. In fact, you
should send me that picture that you posted. I'll put
it up on Insta because I make sandwiches that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
Are absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Yeah, somebody on one of our humor sites posted there's
this porn star who apparently wanted to set a world
record for how many guys yeah in one one sitting,
which is kind of repugnant when you think about it.
But the headline was that she pleasured so many men
in one day, and the comment immediately below it was,

(01:59:24):
that's a lot of sandwiches. I love how you can
take something so repugnant and turn it into something just
kind of sexist.

Speaker 2 (01:59:35):
I've gone ahead and sent it, sent.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
The you have a she's you sent it to my?

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
My said, I sent, like I do most things. I
sent it through I the messager.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
Oh Facebook messenger. Okay, yeah, so I could actually probably
log into that if I could figure out how to
do it. I am so Facebook, all right. So the
Chocolate Heer lawyers maintained the words that want and expertly
crafted with the finest ingredients putted on its bars were
an exortable puffery, according to a decision by the Eastern District.

(02:00:08):
I can't believe somebody wasted tax dollars tax dollars on this.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
They advertised that their product was the best everybody. Now,
dare they.

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
Just Trump owned this company? That's what's going on here.
The court, which dismissed Len's motion, defined product puffery as
exaggerated advertising, blustering and boasting upon which no reasonable buyer
would rely.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
Hello, h all you. The purpose of advertising is to
put your product out there and say, hey, this is good,
give it a try. So when you have you know,
Nestli no longer has a presence in the US as
far as their candy bars go. It's another company that
has them now. But you used to see these everybody
has everywhere else, these chocolate, this sea of chocolate and

(02:00:56):
all these almonds being dipped in and it's just hold
up and it just looks so amazing. It's a Hershey bar,
for Pete's sake. It's not a big deal, you know,
It's just they dismissed the motion.

Speaker 3 (02:01:09):
The Swiss newspaper Latent said Lint was walking a tightrope
with this daring defense. Rely Lynt's high profit margins are
due to the fact that consumers are willing to pay
more for its industrial chocolate because of their quality. Image.

Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
That's it. It's image, that's it.

Speaker 3 (02:01:26):
That with cars, people do that with people coffee. People
do it with people pay for like a product bag.
It's not it's not any more exciting better made than
you know, something I could get at Walmart. I mean,
look at look at chrispy Kreme. If you're to blindfold
me and line up, you know, save Chris, I would
not know the difference, honest to God, and yet you

(02:01:48):
know they It's that's called branding. The court decision said.
The plaintiffs brought the class action against Lint, alleging that
the firm deceptively their dark shot bars is.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Extractly safe safe as well as delightful safe.

Speaker 3 (02:02:07):
Oh when the bars in fact contain significant amounts of lead. Okay,
now we're talking. So up until this point, once you
put the word safe in there, you're like, uh what Okay,
So now we're crossing over. Clint did not immediately respond
to a requests for common Why would there be lead

(02:02:28):
in their chocolate bars? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Consumers
in the United in the in the US states of Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada,
and New York had taken legal action on the back
of a twenty twenty two article by the US Consumer
organization consumer reports concerning yeah, concerning the levels of lead
and cadmium in Dirk chocolate bars.

Speaker 2 (02:02:50):
I did not know that was a We don't read
consumer reports, that's what's.

Speaker 3 (02:02:55):
But don't we have like, hey, let's not be putting
lead in our food. Isn't that like a thing? Here?
What happened to the will be?

Speaker 2 (02:03:01):
It will be once RFK Junior kicks it sea.

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
Yeah, you know what's gonna be funny is having fries
fried in beef.

Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
Tallow Again, that's how they're supposed to be.

Speaker 3 (02:03:16):
This is gonna be not just it's gonna be mafah. Yeah,
because he made that connection that when they switched over
to seed oils, that's when obesity just blossomed right here.
And before you go back and you look at you know,
kids drinking milkshakes and eating fries and whatnot, they were

(02:03:37):
still healthy.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
Well yeah, it was also reason though.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
Also before video games were invented too, so you need
to look at that. The organization tested twenty eight bars
sold in the United States. One of the Lint bars
was among eight found to have a high level a cadmium,
while another was a Monk ten with a high level
of lead. Though neither had the highest level.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
Well, see the next paragraph is gonna explain why we
haven't seen these Lint bars.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
Two of its bars marketed under US.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
Brand Galli, which we eat all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
Everybody thinks they're food food pinky.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
Yeah, there are food food pinky lifting, but.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
They're among the five classified as safer choices. Okay, I
used to love oh and we had it wasn't Whole Foods.
It was the one you could.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
Actually afford, but it was it was one that they
bought later Whole Foods.

Speaker 3 (02:04:32):
Did they buy it Whole Foods.

Speaker 2 (02:04:34):
And Whole and there was something wild oats?

Speaker 3 (02:04:38):
I think is something rather it's only you know, it
wasn't Whole paycheck. They had organic rainforest chocolate.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
That was all. Those were great.

Speaker 3 (02:04:47):
I love Yeah, and will bars from other manufacturers had
higher concentrations of heavy metals, including from organic brands. Dang it.
Consumers insisted in the class action lawsuit that they had
paid premi prices for Lint because they believe they were
purchasing quality and say, well, yeah, if it says safe
on the package, okay, you had me on Lint's side

(02:05:09):
until safe and then I'm like, whoa hold on a tick.
Let's not be putting the word safe on your food
if you're going to be sticking lead and earthenic and
whatever else in there. Switzerland is very attached to the
quality of it's good. It's calling card to sell products
that are off. Now, I'm never going to buy chocolate
from my key again, that's for sure. No, plus assembling
it when you get home as a pain.

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
But yeah, I mean, I remember being in Europe when
I was ten years old, and you know, you'd get
the candy bars, the big ones, and they were branded NESTLEI.
But you have to understand that was Nestley in Switzerland.
Whole new level of different, the whole new level of yumminess.
So that was different. But you know, every time I

(02:05:54):
hear the word Giridelia takes me back, because there is
a a shopping complex in San Francisco where they used
to make gear Deeli chocolates. It's called Giara Deeli Square.
And I don't this is a fun Jim fact you
probably did not know. The day I graduated boot camp,
Jack and my mom came down to see me, and

(02:06:17):
we flew into San Francisco and we had dinner there
at the restaurant Gardelli Square, and I just it felt
so nice to have a real meal at a nice restaurant.

Speaker 3 (02:06:28):
The spoon that you're like with the forking.

Speaker 2 (02:06:30):
Spoon, I can chew and swallow and enjoy and knowing
me being all attuned to boot camp, and I still
do this. I eat too fast like that, like there's
gonna be some kind of crisis. I'm like the equivalent
of the guy at the Las Vegas buffet carries around
two plates stacked to the rafters because he's afraid they're

(02:06:51):
going to run. I don't know what possesses people to
do that. It's not like the food's gonna go away.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
Yeah, especially at a buffet where they just read. But
today we were at a potluck and you find something
that's really good and you're like, Okay, I'm gonna jump
in the line because they're gonna eat it all before
I get there.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
I actually did that with the mac and cheese, because
there were two lines and one line passed by the
mac and cheese, and the other day.

Speaker 3 (02:07:13):
I did I did. I was not rest with the
mac and cheese. I feel so bad too. That beautiful
mini potatoes. Oh, they looked like they had been steamed,
and they had parmesan melted on them and some kind
of sauce and it looked so good. So I grabbed
a spoonful of that and I bit into the first
one and went to much. They were completely raw. And

(02:07:37):
I sat there looking at that poor dejected potato, and
I thought of the person who brought them. I'm like, oh, no,
they must have like roasted them in the oven turned
off or something, but I don't know who.

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
I probably got them at a store or something and
it was under it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:53):
I don't know the potatoes or the person who brought them.
And so all these people have these beautiful and those
things expense. They had these beautiful little mini multi colored
potatoes and they were raw, and I wanted to pack
them up and cook them at home, and I just, yeah,
I didn't. So I feel really bad. I hope the
person who brought them isn't listening to this or is

(02:08:15):
because you know, you tried, we.

Speaker 2 (02:08:17):
Appreciate your attempt. Yeah, I'm very I'm very thankful I
did not have.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
I know, one time I made a chili for one
of these things and didn't realize that I had burnt
the bottom the whole thing. A chili just tasted awful.
I was mortified.

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
It was a charity cook off.

Speaker 3 (02:08:36):
Yeah, and I make really good. Batch did not do
well and I felt.

Speaker 2 (02:08:45):
Pretty garbage day. It was the last time we visited
that venue.

Speaker 3 (02:08:49):
Yeah, I think it was very last time. Yeah, yeah,
all right, believe it or not, we are rounding the
final story, County.

Speaker 2 (02:09:05):
Bet dude.

Speaker 3 (02:09:10):
Okay, folks, we always like to end on a high note,
so we have a story for you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:19):
This is a beautiful, beautiful story about beautiful cot.

Speaker 3 (02:09:28):
You're on counterculture wise, we may rant, we may rave,
but most of all, we go against the current culture
because we believe, to the core of our beings that
humans are good and the world is an amazing and
beautiful place. At the beginning of our show, we give
you news of the weird and wonderful, but that is

(02:09:48):
just the tip of the magnificent iceberg that is our world.
We now present news of the wonderfuller.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
God works in amazing ways.

Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
Yeah, Jim always tries to make me cries. Well, let's
see how we do. Charlotte stood on the train tracks,
ready for a train to come sweeping down the rails
and to end it all you know, when I lived
in Lacy, there were train tracks right across the river
from us, and that was actually a thing. Like I'm

(02:10:32):
talking often, once or twice a year, somebody would end
their lives by jumping in front of a train.

Speaker 2 (02:10:40):
That's just that's one of the worst possible ways I
could think of humping myself off.

Speaker 3 (02:10:43):
I can't even imagine.

Speaker 2 (02:10:45):
And that's not reversible.

Speaker 3 (02:10:47):
I don't know how many of them were on purpose,
so that there is that possibility that maybe they didn't
mean to. All I can say is it traumatizes everyone
in everyone, the conductor, the people on the train, if
there are people, most of them were freight trains. Sure,
every family member, the you know, the emergency work can.

Speaker 2 (02:11:11):
Get help, get help if you have those impulses, because
I've had them before and I had to coach myself
out of it and I got counseling and.

Speaker 3 (02:11:21):
Do not, do not, do not. And I've heard there
was a family that you know, was taken out by
a guy who was upset about the election. Folks, it's temporary.
It's four years, it's temporary. The worst that can happen
is nothing. Okay, That's something that concerns me too. But
we'll talk about that another time. Let's read about Charlotte. However,

(02:11:46):
the driver of that train, forty seven year old Dave Leay,
had other plans, slamming the brakes after receiving notice of
a pedestrian on the tracks. Wow, that is so cool
that they can do that. Lay brought the train to
a halt and got down to talk with the suicidal
woman for nearly half an hour before eventually getting her
safely to the next platform. Local police met the pair

(02:12:09):
and helped Charlotte get in contact with the local mental
health support workers then and there. I hope that this
new administration tackles this mental health crisis, because we have.
It's huge, it's pretty bad, and the reactions to this
election kind of bruso at'll bit, so I pray that

(02:12:32):
they do. Uh. Charlotte had other plans Oh wait, okay,
shake him, but feeling good about what he was able
to do, Dave departed, imagining the episode had finished, but
Charlotte had other plans. Looking him up on Facebook. The
following day, she sent a message thanking him for the
kindness he showed her on the rails at the Cross
Flat station in West Yorkshire, England. I walked down the

(02:12:57):
tracks and sat down waiting. Charlotte told the British media
sw I'm sure who raised the alarm about my present?
I'm unsure my apologies who raised the alarm about my presence.
But when the next train came, it slowed and stopped
far from me. So this must be a commuter train.
That's it, because of cargo train and not being long

(02:13:17):
of that. I'm so grateful Todave for stopping that day
and being so patient and understanding. She's a beautiful woman.
I can't imagine how she got into well, I mean looks,
I can't you can't judge. After Dave returned Charlotte's text
telling her he was available whenever she needed to speak
to someone, they began exchanging messages on a daily basis.

(02:13:38):
They met for a coffee after chatting for two months,
and she's if she's a nerd, it looks like she's
buying an MRI machine. So that's that's a tough. Fast
forward three years and they tied the knot when Charlotte
was twenty two weeks pregnant with their first child. Oh
my goodness, you got them backwards. But we started doing
the right thing Charlotte, the nurse of the British National

(02:14:01):
Health Service, was previously diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety,
post traumastic post traumatic stress disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder. Well,
we definitely want her having babies and calling her decision
making process. From that fateful day in twenty nineteen, she
said that she was on the train to work in
her scrubs, but nothing felt right. Dave's arrival had all

(02:14:21):
the harm marks she remembered of a person trained to
de escalate mental health crises. I once asked him if
he'd ever had any de escal de escalationh training. We're
nothing if not professional hero countercul joys de escalation training
because he was brilliant that day, she said. The conversation,

(02:14:41):
from what I can remember, was just about mundane things
and about both of our lives, but it was enough
to break the crisis. Life didn't feel as heavy anymore.
The next day, I made it my mission to find
the man who had been so kind to me. Lucky
for her, he's hot.

Speaker 2 (02:14:58):
He's a good looking guy.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
Yeah, she's absolutely beautiful. Okay, my mouse has flipped out
on me. There we go. Yeah, one guy, but but
but By, Dave told BBC simply said all the things
he wished he could have said two other people who
have committed suicide, and for his part, was desperately happy

(02:15:20):
to hear from Charlotte, as he had no way of
knowing if she ever approached mental health services or if
she made another attempt to enter the House of Hades.
That's an interesting way of putting that I needed to
know she was all right. I contacted police to find
out what happened to her, and just wanted to make
sure she was safe, he told the BBC. I felt

(02:15:42):
like I had a duty to make sure she was
all right. We'd had that rapport built by the side
of the trap. Charlotte says she hopes that by sharing
her story, people will realize that although it would be
ideal if we all had special specialist training to deal
with mental health crisis, we are nevertheless capable of helping
by being empathetic and present. And I know there is

(02:16:04):
a national suicide hotline. I'm going to look that up
right now because I just want to have that available
for anybody who might need it. And Crisis Center of
North Texas twenty four hours and then there's a nine
to eight to eight lifeline. Sub national heipeline provides support

(02:16:25):
for individuals. All you do, pick up dial nine eight eight. Folks,
You're loved and we have a jolly good time doing
this show. We always want to hand like I said,
on a high note, and that was a beautiful story.
She was a beautiful bride. And I hope their baby

(02:16:45):
is healthy and happy and does not get any of
mom's issues, and that they are able to raise their
baby in a happy, healthy home and make more. I
got to spend in the afternoon today with probably one
of the most beautiful babies ever in the history of ever,
and three beautiful children, and already contemplating the possibility maybe

(02:17:07):
another we'll seeing and it's just so lovely seeing the
kids in our church and realizing it's all going to
be okay. That the miracle of the fingernails and the eyelashes.
I mean, just if ever you feel like you're not

(02:17:28):
one with the universe or God or whatever you believe in.
I believe in God, go look at a baby and
just focus, even if you don't like kids, because I'm
not a big kid lover, focus on the eyelashes, just
that one little detail and just the perfection that comes
with miracles that are being made every day, and you

(02:17:51):
can't help but feel all the way down to the
core of your being that God is good, people are good,
and everything's going to be okay. I hope you have
an amazing evening and we will see you next week.

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